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2022 has been the year of Unite wins – under general secretary Sharon Graham, Unite has had more victories in the workplace than it can count. As part of our special 12 days of Christmas series, UniteLive looks back at a handful of the many wins we’ve had in every month throughout the year. Today, […]
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Liverpool dockers employed by Peel Ports have won pay hikes between 14 per cent and 18 per cent plus, according to job grades, after a deal was secured by Unite, the dockers’ union. At a mass meeting held on Thursday (November 10) at the docks, around 600 workers voted overwhelmingly in favour of the deal, […]
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Peel Ports’ confirmation of months-old restructuring plans means that strikes at the Liverpool port are now about jobs and pay, Unite has said. The union was responding to Peel Ports’ statement that they are seeking redundancies, claiming a downturn of traffic at the Liverpool container port over the last year despite profits of £30 million […]
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Nearly 600 Liverpool port workers will take seven days of fresh strike action beginning on October 11 and ending on October 17, Unite said today (September 29). As well as port operatives and engineers, who began two weeks of industrial action on September 19, senior control room operators and control room operators have now voted […]
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It was only the second full day of strike action for Liverpool dock workers on Wednesday (September 21), but the atmosphere was already jubilant. Hundreds of dock workers were joined on the picket line by general secretary Sharon Graham, confident that their ironclad solidarity will, in the end, triumph. The more than 500 striking workers, […]
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