Dock workers Call off Proposed Strike Action  

The Dock and Maritime Workers Union has finally decided to tread the line of dialogue instead of confrontation following a meeting held at the National Intelligence Agency headquarters in Banjul sometime last week, The Point can confirm.

The dock workers who were poised to embark on an industrial strike on 1st September have reportedly decided to call off their planned industrial action and resolved to engage the Gambia Ports Authority in a roundtable discussion with a view to reaching an agreeable compromise.

According to our source, during the said meting at the NIA headquarters, the upper echelon of the union was given two options by the agency: to either go back to their stakeholders to engage them in dialogue so as to address the matter in a peaceful manner or to go ahead with the strike and face the full consequence of the repercussion of their action.

Consequently, after a careful and thoughtful analysis, the representatives of the aggrieved employees then deemed it wise to choose the former option, thus calling off the planned strike in the interest of peace in the country.