Sundari Anitha and Ruth Pearson on the Gate Gourmet sackings of 2005 and Jo Stanley on an earlier mass dismissal by P&O. Plus letters from Phil Coughlin and Dave Pollard
The sacking of P&O Ferries workers (P&O Ferries told it could face unlimited fine if sackings unlawful, 18 March) echoes the treatment meted out to 700 workers at Gate Gourmet who were sacked by megaphone in 2005.
These workers, mainly female and of south Asian origin, prepared food for British Airways flights. They were dismissed while attending a meeting called by their union to protest against the imposition of agency workers on their production line.
