File photo of Felixstowe
London: 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 had held several days of strikes in a dispute over pay, 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."
