The Listening Ear

So the officers have been served with notice to end their contracts unless they agree to be re-employed on the new terms. Merry Effing Christmas!!

But the crew haven’t been offered redundancy if they don’t accept the new terms. Redundancy hasn’t been mentioned to any crew members at all.

Doesn’t surprise me to be honest. Only a couple of MHK’s appear to have listened to their constituents concerns and that seems to be Juan Watterson, Chris Thomas and Michelle Heywood.

I doubt given the total tripe that has been spouted by a number of MHK’s they will be re-elected.

Well I’m sure he won’t be grilled in Tynwald as Simon Thompson was in Parliament as this IOM administration don’t appear have a backbone… that or they are totally in league with the shore management of the Steam Packet.

100%

Well tomorrow is D-Day for the crew, accept the terms or be fired. What a lovely choice to have to make 3 days before Xmas. I hope Dr. Bunsen Honeydew is really proud of himself.

Let’s hope the SPCO enter into arbitration.

Exactly. They will get involved in the dividend payout but not to help sort out a situation with the company they own!

But the IOMSPCo are not entering into negotiations so surely as the biggest shareholder the government need to step in. But then Mr Treasury Allinson hasn’t a single backbone or is part of the jolly boys club at the helm of the Steam Packet.

I see some MHK’s want some questions answering from the Treasury or as we know them the shareholder and holder of the sea services agreement. It will be interesting to hear their take on all this, unless of course it’s the standard answer of “we are arms length owners”. It’s about time other members of the Government stepped in to arbitrate if Mr Allinson can’t delegate that task when he’s off island as reported on Manx Radio website this week. Questions for Tynwald on 17th October attached. 2023-PP-0111.pdf

100% agree. I see some MHK’s want some questions answering from the Treasury or as we know them the shareholder and holder of the sea services agreement. It will be interesting to hear their take on all this, unless of course it’s the standard answer of “we are arms length owners”. It’s about time other members of the Government stepped in to arbitrate if Mr Allinson can’t delegate that task when he’s off island as reported on Manx Radio website this week. Questions for Tynwald sitting on Tuesday 17th attached. 2023-PP-0111.pdf

Wasn’t it the terminal manager from Liverpool?

No I’m not. As previously stated I just know quite a few people that this will affect.

So Mr Thomson is admitting that they have refused independent arbitration on page 4 of this weeks courier. It isn’t because Manx Industrial Relations don’t have an arbitrator at all. It’s because the sh*tshow of a board and shore management don’t want them digging into what is no more than bully boy tactics. Also hearing from a number of crew that 50% pay increase has never been mentioned until Mr Thomson spouted it in one of his media responses. This isn’t and never has been about pay, the crew are happy with their pay. It’s about having 83 days taken away from them with their families/friends etc.