Britain’s dockers decide to strike
NZPA-Reuter London Leaders of Britain’s 23,900 dockers yesterday decided to call a national strike from Monday 1 ecause of a dispute over job losses in the port of Liverpool. The executive of the country’s biggest trade union, the Transport . and General Workers’, approved a recommendation from delegates from the docks for a walkout.
If the national strike does go ahead, it will be the first by the dockers since 1972. It is estimated that a strike would cost $2.2 billion in lost exports a week, and a similar sum in imports vital for the British economy.
■ The National Association of Port Employers was expected yesterday to recommend raising the severance payments for dockers leaving the industry from $20,700 to $24,400. But the union’s? deputy general secretary (Mr Alex Kitson) has said this will not be sufficient to call off the strike.
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