{"id":1493,"date":"2008-11-27T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport-congress\/2008\/11\/27\/strike-action-continues-at-dover\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:30:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T12:30:45","slug":"strike-action-continues-at-dover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/news\/europe\/strike-action-continues-at-dover\/","title":{"rendered":"Strike action continues at Dover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This stems from a recent decision by the harbour authority to transfer almost 200 mooring, trailer handling and security jobs to third parties, starting in January.<\/p>\n<p>Workers at Dover are justifiably concerned about jobs and pensions, as well as other implications linked to roles within the organisation. A port employee said that &#8216;a lot of the workers with the Dover Harbour Board have been employed for a very long time at the port, and want to see it out&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the strike action, Dover Harbour Board said they expect the port to continue a near-normal schedule. &#8216;We kept running last time, and we&#8217;ll see how we go this time, but our expectations are that it will be business as usual&#8217; said a port spokesman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The strike at Dover looks like continuing this week as a further three-day walk-out is planned for Thursday. Hundreds of Unite members working at Dover Harbour went on strike last week\u00a0 after a dispute hinging on the outsourcing of harbour jobs to private contractors was not resolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1495,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions\/1495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport-congress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}