News / More than half HMM seafarers sign resignation letters as pay dispute heats up – but talks go on

More than half HMM’s 600-strong seafarer workforce have signed letters of resignation following management refusal to meet pay demands.

Some 453 staff voted in the seafarers’ union strike ballot last weekend, more than 90% backing action in protest at a reluctance to give generous salary increases after a pay freeze between 2011 and 2019, due to the company’s poor performance in those years.

Meanwhile, the union said yesterday it would extend negotiations by a week, to 1 September.

The union said: “We don’t want ...