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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Wesley Holmes

Dock workers strike at Port of Liverpool over 'pay cut dressed up as rise'

Dock workers formed a huge picket line at the Port of Liverpool as they strike over pay.

More than 560 port operatives and engineers at Mersey Docks and Harbour Company (MDHC) will continue to strike until October 3 over a 8.3% pay rise offer, which they say amounts to a pay cut as it is not in line with the current rate of inflation.

Workers have also objected to what they say is MDHC’s failure to undertake a pay review, which was promised in 2021, and claims over a lack of improvements to shift rotas.

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