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Tonight the strike is off. Condor bringing you that report. | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
Tonight the strike is off. Condor Ferries crew will sail the Condor | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
Rapide from St Malo tomorrow morning, two weeks after workers | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
walked out. It's cost the company at least half a million pounds, and | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
caused disruption to passengers and businesses across the islands. Jen | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
Smith reports. 13 days, more than half a million | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
pounds, and scores of cancelled services later. The strike is over. | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
Condor's French sailors first walked out on February the 6th in a row | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
over workers rights. They wanted to be on French contracts with the | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
benefits those entail. That's not happened, but Condor says they've | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
made compromises. Condor won't reveal specific information about | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
individual contracts. But the Chief Executive has revealed the company | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
has agreed to many of the worker's demands for better benefits` | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
including improved medical insurance, accidental insurance and | :01:01. | :01:07. | |
improved training programmes. Condor also remains open to discussions | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
about re`registering the vessel under a French flag. It's not just | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
Condor that's been left out of pocket. The strike has cost some | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
businesses thousands of pounds, and left others stranded in France. | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
Geoff Spencer Tucker told the BBC his ski business has lost out. We | :01:23. | :01:38. | |
had 26 people that were due to go down to the Pyrenees. Lots and lots | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
of people were very disappointed, myself included. Some were not able | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
to the book due to family commitments so we had to give them a | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
full refund. The Channel Island governments recently renewed | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
Condor's contract to provide ferry services to the islands. There's | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
five years left to run on the existing agreement, and Jersey's | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
Economic Development Minister Senator Alan Maclean admits he can't | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
guarantee such strike action won't happen again. As an island, we have | :02:04. | :02:14. | |
to make sure we are not held hostage in the way we have over the | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
situation. Any areas which can be improved to take that risk away we | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
will have to consider and we make some really strong demands of Condor | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
to deliver that business continuity for the future. Condor hopes the | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
Rapide will sail from St Malo tomorrow morning. But two weeks of | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
disruption won't be easily forgotten. | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
One of the concerns mentioned in Jen Smith's report was whether the | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
Condor Rapide should be re`registered in France rather than | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
the Bahamas. Tonight Mark Carden from the RMT union, who staged a | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
similar protest in Portsmouth last night in solidarity with their | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
French counterparts, says that needs to change too. It is far from well | :02:54. | :03:05. | |
respected, it is a flag of convenience and it is on a blacklist | :03:06. | :03:13. | |
of international unions. They recognise these are flags of | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
convenience. James Fulford is the CEO of Condor Ferries, I asked him | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
what concessions had been made for the French crew. All of our crew get | :03:20. | :03:29. | |
the same contracts. We are Guernsey `based employer. The differences are | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
you live in the UK you with except the states provide some things. In | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
France that does not happen and what we have done is put together a set | :03:40. | :03:49. | |
of private medical insurance is too much was our UK crews would expect | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
to get. Give us a bit more detail on the contracts. All contracts are the | :03:54. | :04:02. | |
same in terms of pay but we have spotted a gap now for our French | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
employees and we have enabled them to have some private medical | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
insurance that the British crews would not need the NHS. They would | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
not have done this slightly and I don't think they would do this now | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
that we are working so much better. Did they get it wrong with the | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
French workers? We could have done better. As I said earlier, nobody | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
has won out of this. It has been really difficult for the crews and | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
the company but most importantly for the Islanders. I would not describe | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
it as you did but I would say that like anything there are ways we can | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
work more effectively. What about businesses who've lost money because | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
of the strike? Will you be offering them compensation? I am not sure | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
that I would go that far. If you look at most insurance policies | :05:01. | :05:10. | |
this is an action that we were not notified of and it was an unforeseen | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
action. Looking back words is there anything we could have done better? | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
That is different from saying we ought to be held out for that. It | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
would be opportunistic to take that approach. Guernsey Police have this | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
evening released the name of the man whose body was found at Albecq on | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
the west coast on Monday lunchtime. 75`year`old Brian Kindred was | :05:33. | :05:34. | |
identified today. Guernsey Police aren't treating it as suspicious, a | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
cause of death isn't known. Hundreds of dead sea birds have been | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
found on Jersey's beaches because of the recent storms. Over 450 have | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
been found in the last two to three weeks. The birds are of various | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
species including Puffins, razorbills, and local european | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
shacks, which are already in decline. | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
EasyJet has re`enforced its commitment to Jersey. Company bosses | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
today told delegates at the Chamber of Commerce that the launch of a | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
three time daily flight to Gatwick, due to start in March, showed how | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
serious easyJet is about Jersey The airline last year withdrew an | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
application to fly to Guernsey. Solar panels are set to be put on | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
the top of a Government building in Guernsey It's hoped the move at | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
Frossard House could save the island money in the long term. | :06:18. | :06:26. | |
That's the news from us, the National weather forecast is next | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
after our local outlook. We promised you some slightly | :06:29. | :06:37. | |
brighter weather but so far this week we have not done too badly | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
Towards the weather we have an increased strength of wind but | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
tomorrow is a breezy day with rain clearing two showers. Some outbreaks | :06:47. | :06:54. | |
of rain overnight and very misty and Marky. Towards the morning, | :06:55. | :07:02. | |
temperatures dipping to around eight Celsius. A wet start to the day with | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
the rain clearing replaced by showers. Sunshine now and then add | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
10 Celsius the highest temperature. Expect to see a similar sort of day | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
on Friday and Saturday is a bright and Friday and Sunday is when they | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
but it may be dry with outbreaks of rain overnight. That is all from the | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
team here and I will leave you with the summary. | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
showers if you are on the Quay. Friday, a fine day. For the weekend, | :07:33. | :07:41. | |
here is the BBC National weather. We have got rain and wind in the | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
forecast, but the good news is that it is not severe. Over the next 24 | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
hours, some of us will get rain and the winds will be | :07:56. | :07:56. |