According to our latest information: Liverpool, the second largest container port in the UK, has begun a two-week strike from September 19.
It is understood that more than 500 dockers employed by the Mersey Docks and Ports Company (MDHC) in the Port of Liverpool went into action on the night of the 19th.
Steven Gerrard, a regional officer at Unite, the trade union, said: "Strike action will inevitably severely impact shipping and road transport and create supply chain shortages, but this dispute is entirely of Peel Ports' own making."
"The union has held extensive talks with the company, but the company has refused to address the concerns of its members."
The Liverpool workers are understood to be unhappy with their employer's offer of an 8.4% pay rise and a one-off payment of £750, which they say does not even cover inflation and represents a fall in real wages.
MDHC, which is owned by Peel Ports, closed Liverpool docks for Monday's funeral and planned to reopen at 7pm, but the move caused protests.
At the port of Felixstowe, 1,900 members of the longshoremen's union are planning an eight-day strike from September 27.
Dockers AT THE PORT OF FelixSTOwe plan to join a strike in Liverpool on Friday 23RD, foreign media reported.
More than 170,000 workers will walk out on 1 October as communications union CWU and rail unions RMT, ASLEF and TSSA take joint action in a major walkout that will bring the rail network and postal service to a standstill.
The country's lawyers, bin men, airport workers, university lecturers and cleaners are also known to be on strike or about to strike.
Members of the University and College Union (UCU) will also stage 10 days of strike action at 26 further education colleges this month and in October.
The GMB will announce the strike dates after striking workers in Waltham Forest, east London, voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action.
Meanwhile, members of Unite in the neighbouring borough of Newham yesterday began another two weeks of strike action in protest at zero per cent pay.
NHS nurses at the Royal College of Nursing will begin balloting on strike action on 6 October and more than 30,000 firefighters will vote on strike action over pay next month.......
Post time: Sep-22-2022