News / Liverpool dockers begin two-week strike after rejecting 'generous' pay offer

Ian Byrne MP (far left) on the Liverpool picket line

Dock workers at the port of Liverpool began a two week strike today, following the breakdown of negotiations with employer Peel Ports.

Felixstowe dockers, also in a dispute over pay, will start an eight-day strike from 27 September, ending 5 October.

Liverpool’s 560 dockers delayed the start of their strike by a day as a mark of respect to the late Queen, but today pickets were out in force.

The International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) said the action was the result of “a ...