News / Felixstowe dockers lose overtime and union threatens 'action until Xmas'

Despite the eight-day strike being due to end at 11pm on Sunday night, the UK port of Felixstowe has told its dockers not to report until Tuesday, meaning they will lose the opportunity to work vessels on overtime on bank holiday Monday.

Bank holiday working at the port would normally be possible with overtime, but as part of its increasingly acrimonious spat with the Unite union, the port management is refusing to work ships already alongside, or that could be alongside ...