At one of the UK’s largest container ports, dock workers in their hundreds are beginning a fresh two-week strike in a dispute over pay, which could further disrupt the country’s supply chains.
The union Unite which nearly has 600 members at the Peel Ports owned Port of Liverpool, will strike again from Monday (24 October), after the union said talks designed to resolve the dispute ended “in chaos”.
The union had accused the board of operator Peel Ports of intervening to stop a deal, which it said had been agreed in principle, from going ahead.
According to Unite’s general secretary, Sharon Graham, said the Unite team had “negotiated in good faith with Peel Ports”. “But the talks ended in farce, with the deal agreed between Unite and senior management being pulled by the board,” she said. “Strike action by our members and with the full support of Unite will go ahead.”
For more on this latest strike, The Guardian reports.
