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Let $\mathbb{L}\subset A\times I$ be a link in a thickened annulus. We show that its sutured annular Khovanov homology carries an action of $\mathfrak{sl}_{2}(\wedge )$ , the exterior current algebra of $\mathfrak{sl}_{2}$ . When $\mathbb{L}$ is an $m$ -framed $n$ -cable of a knot $K\subset S^{3}$ , its sutured annular Khovanov homology carries a commuting action of the symmetric group $\mathfrak{S}_{n}$ . One therefore obtains a ‘knotted’ Schur–Weyl representation that agrees with classical $\mathfrak{sl}_{2}$ Schur–Weyl duality when $K$ is the Seifert-framed unknot.