Liverpool dockers are back at work on 3 October after a two-week strike for pay, but will be out again for a week from 11 October if they don’t have a settlement by then, and then every other week, indefinitely. The operator, Peel Ports, stonewalled at first, but has now agreed to talks, to start 4 October. Union organisation in the port has been rebuilt by patient effort since the defeat of the epic Liverpool dockers’ strike of 1995-8. Meanwhile, the port has been expanded, to become again one of the busiest in Britain, and the workforce has increased.

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