Throughout the history of the Liverpool docks, known as Mersey Docks and Harbour Company, there have been numerous strike actions by dock workers, although some have been part of larger industrial action affecting other trades and union workers.
The strike involved around 16,000 workers and caused interference with trade exports, with pay systems a core factor.
[1] Just two years later in July 1969, dockers again struck with colleagues from Birkenhead, involving 11,000 men over a dispute regarding handling goods at an Aintree container base.
[2] A few years later in 1972, Liverpool dockers joined in a national dock strike to safeguard jobs, protesting against redundancy plans from firms using cheaper casual labour.
[3] The longest known dispute, which was technically not a strike as the workforce were all dismissed, was the Liverpool dockers' dispute (1995–98) that ended with settlement pay and a few job reinstatements.