Liverpool Port Workers Begin 2-Week Strike
Dockworkers at the U.K.’s Port of Liverpool on Sept. 19 began a strike expected to continue through Oct. 3 (see 2209130016), their union said this week. Workers began striking after the port failed “to honour the 2021 pay agreement” and conduct a “promised pay review,” the union said. Port workers “are being asked to accept attacks on their living standards while the company gets richer and richer -- Unite will not tolerate that,” said Sharon Graham, general secretary of Unite the Union.
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David Huck, chief operating officer of Peel Ports Group, which operates the Liverpool port, said he is “deeply disappointed Unite has rejected” Peel's offer and urged the union “to work with us at the negotiating table so together we can find a resolution.”