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the ferry ports during the recent P & 0 dispute, then ferry crews may have slipped down in your alltime popularity list. We don't know what conditions currently pertain to the workers of P & 0 ferries, but the new working arrangements that management are demanding are already operating on Sealink British Ferries.
Sealink assistant purser John Pollard spoke out in a recent edition of the Observer, about his working conditions. The Sealink ferry crews work a basic 18-hour day, with an hour in breaks during that time. The crew work this shift for two weeks on and a week off throughout the year. Officers work the same except during the winter, when they work one on, and one off.
Pollard was not actually criticising his company, but did point out that the shifts take the crews "to the limit of what's humanly possible." These shifts mean that at the