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Dockers launch eight-day strike in a dispute over pay at Britain’s biggest container port
Members of the Unite union man a picket line at one of the entrances to the Port of Felixstowe in Suffolk, Britain's biggest and busiest container port, after backing industrial action by 9-1 in a dispute over pay
DOCKERS launched the first of an eight-day strike today at Britain’s biggest container port in Felixstowe.
About 1,900 members of Unite at the town in Suffolk were due to walk out in a dispute over pay in the first strike to hit the port since 1989.
It is the latest outbreak of industrial action to hit a growing number of sectors of the economy.
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