London - Dockers in Liverpool ended a two-year dispute yesterday, agreeing to accept £28,000 each from the company that fired them, the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company.
Mersey Docks said the settlement with the 327 dockers, who were all fired in November 1995 for holding a sympathy strike with employees of a Liverpool stevedoring company, will cost the company around £10 million. In October the dockers voted by a margin of two to one against accepting the severance pay, saying they would continue urging dock workers worldwide to boycott container ships calling at Liverpool.