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To: Claudio Veritiero - C.E.O
Support Liverpool Dockers
The workers have won pay hikes of between 14.3% and 18.5%, according to job grades. Up the dockers!
MDHC Peel Ports - Stop intimidating workers, start negotiating a fair pay rise.
Mersey Docks and Harbour Company (MDHC) have made the workforce a below-inflation pay offer. With inflation currently at 12.3% and threatening to go even higher, this is a real terms pay cut.
The dispute is also over the company’s failure to honour the dock workers’ 2021 pay agreement and breaking a promise to improve shift rotas.
In a move to add insult to injury, the company have issued a formal redundancy notice to 132 workers, despite having plans to expand the business. This ‘desperate’ move is obviously designed to intimidate workers from standing up for themselves against a hostile employer.
Why is this important?
MDHC, is part of Peel Ports and is owned by the Peel Group, based in the Isle of Man tax haven. Peel Ports recently reported a record pre-tax profit of £141million, which was greater than the entire wage bill for the year. Peel Ports has paid out more than £300 million to shareholders, in dividends over the last five years.
The Liverpool port on its own made the company more than £30 million in profits in 2021.
This is a company that can clearly afford to give its workers a fair pay rise in line with inflation.
We ask MDHC to:
• Return to negotiations to deliver a fair pay rise in line with inflation
• Honour the 2021 pay agreement
•. Remove the threat of unfair redundancies