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A view of empty spaces at a new car compound on the quayside in Sheerness, Kent, as supply chain issues across the world continue to affect businesses on January 6, 2022
UNITE claimed victory today after bosses backed down over threats to fire and rehire striking dock workers in Kent.
Further industrial action by the staff at Sheerness who are employed by car importers GB Terminals has now been called off after four days of walkouts in January.
More than 30 workers who process Volkswagen Group vehicles at the dock would have been affected by management plans to change minimum overtime hours by forcing new contracts on them, Unite had warned.
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says
Sharon Graham addresses the Unite policy conference after talks over the Birmingham bin strikes break down
