Dockers from the Port of Liverpool have accepted a pay rise after nearly two months of strike action.
Liverpool dockers employed at the Peel Ports-owned Port of Liverpool have won pay increases between 14 and 18 percent plus, according to job grades. Hundreds of dock workers voted in favour of strike action in August in response to a seven percent pay offer from the company which they described as a failure to honour its 2021 pay agreement.
Around 600 port operatives from Mersey Docks and Harbour Company staged the industrial action for nearly two months after first walking out on September 19 in a row over pay and conditions at the port. Further action was due to take place on November 14 - but Unite, the union representing the dockers, confirmed earlier this week that an agreement had been reached and the deal would be put to the union members to vote on.
