Although dock side workers at the chief ports in Sydney, Brisbane and Fremantle are expected to resume with their duties today, a new arrangement on their pay and work conditions is still far from being given them.

This after Patrick, wharf employer, blocked the workers access to the docks and refused to pay them in response to the industrial action done earlier.

Although the wharfies have decided to call off such industrial action, Patrick still denies paying them.

According to the Herald Sun, Maritime Union of Australia national secretary Paddy Crumlin explained that the cancelled industrial action involved only working within their job description with no overtime or transfers.

"We've been there for nine months since the expiry of our last agreement and we are determined to get an outcome," Crumlin told ABC Radio.

"We just hope now (Patrick) will climb down from their rhetoric and posturing and sit down at the table and act in the best interests of their own company and in the national interest," he added.

Today’s stoppage of the industrial action had been a result an election conducted among union members. Majority of them voted in favor of ceasing the industrial action that may come back to work today.