The UK’s supply chain “will be severely disrupted,” a union official said on Monday as the strike at the country’s largest container port enters the second day.
Some 1,900 Unite members at the Port of Felixstowe, around three-quarters of the port’s workforce, started an eight-day strike on Sunday in a dispute over pay after the union rejected an offer of a 7 percent raise, as well as a single payment of £500 ($592).
Unite said the offer isn’t good enough to catch up with inflation, and the port blamed the union for not bringing the deal to its members.
Unite national officer Robert Morton told Sky News on Monday that he accepts “the supply chain will be severely disrupted” by the strike, calling it “one of the unfortunate parts of things like this.”…