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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Wesley Holmes

Defiant dock workers return to picket line as port bosses threaten job cuts

Dock workers at the Port of Liverpool have returned to the picket line this morning as they continue their fight for better wages and pay.

Port operatives, engineers and control room operatives from the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company went ahead with their second week of planned strike action in defiance of warnings of job losses from parent company Peel Ports.

The company recently announced plans to cut 132 jobs as it makes changes to its containers division following a decline in the volume of cargo handled by the port.

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