FIVE HUNDRED dockers have been in dispute with their employers for a month it began as . a dispute about overtime, involving five Now the 500 have been dismissed for refusing to cross picket lines set up during the original dispute.
Casualisation of the workforce and the breaking of the Mersey docks and harhour inint shop steward committee are behind the dispute.
The TGWU has fought shy of official involvement. The support throughout Merseyside has. however. been magnificent. demonstration of over two thousand. Picketing has been well supported and substantial donations have been received from Ford and Halewood car workers and Sefton City council.
The pressure is already beginning to tell despite some scabs being brought in and some work being transferred. The company has offered 250 jobs back and a £10,000 pay off. This has been rejected.
This is a major national dispute with necos misssive support, especially financial.
Money and messages of solidarity should go to: Ecinburgh Park dockers clut. Townsend Lane, Liverpoc Cheques payable to: Merseyside docks shop stewards appeal fund.