Staff at UK’s busiest container port Felixstowe accept 2023 pay offer

LONDON (Reuters) – Workers at Britain’s busiest container port Felixstowe have voted to accept a pay offer for 2023, operator Hutchison Ports said on Tuesday.

The workers at the port in eastern England, who have held several days of strikes in a dispute over pay, have voted to accept a pay deal of 8.5% plus 1,000 pounds from Jan. 1 next year, the company said.

“We are pleased to have reached an agreement on the 2023 pay deal,” Robert Ashton, Chief Operating Officer at the Port of Felixstowe, said in a statement.

“This is the earliest we have concluded an annual pay review and it provides welcome certainty and stability at a time when our employees, like everyone else, are facing an increase in the cost of living.”

(Reporting by Kylie MacLellan; Editing by Alex Richardson)