Unite warns the planned strike action of almost 2,000 members will bring the port to a standstill and severely affect national supply chains
Dock workers at the UK’s biggest container port are set to walk out for eight days on Sunday in a dispute over pay.
With 1,900 members of Unite taking action in the first strike to hit Felixstowe, in Suffolk, since 1989, the union said it would bring the port to a standstill and severely affect the national supply chain of goods.said the strike would be an “inconvenience not a catastrophe” as disruption following the pandemic was “the new normal”.
They also suggested that some suppliers of white goods such as fridge freezers might welcome a break because of slower sales due to theThe strike at the port, which handles nearly half of the freight entering the country, is the latest to hit the British economy following a growing number ofSpeaking to GB News on Saturday, Unite’s national officer Robert Morton said the union was organising secondary strike action overseas to stop goods even reaching the UK in order to get a better pay deal for...
“Its parent company, CK Hutchison Holding Ltd, is so wealthy that, in the same year, it handed out £99 million to its shareholders.
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