8-Day Strike Begins at UK’s Biggest Container Port

8-Day Strike Begins at UK’s Biggest Container Port
Shipping containers pictured at the Port of Felixstowe in Suffolk, England, on Aug. 21, 2022. Joe Giddens/PA Media
Alexander Zhang
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Union members at Felixstowe, the UK’s biggest container port, have gone on an eight-day strike in a dispute over pay, the first industrial action at the site in more than 30 years.

The port, which employs about 2,550 people, handles roughly 4 million containers from 2,000 ships each year, nearly half of the containerised freight entering the UK.