Liverpool dockers win on pay
Liverpool dockers, members of Unite, have won pay rises of from 14.3% to 18.5%, backdated to June 2022, by their five weeks of strikes. They voted to accept the offer from Peel Ports on Thursday 11 November. Without the offer, they would have been on strike again from 14 November. The victory can be put down to determination and organisation. The dockers struck for two weeks at a time, rather than the one-day strikes used in other disputes. There were picket lines 24 hours a day, seven days a week. And decisions were taken by mass meetings on the picket line. Unite dockers in Southampton and...