Socialist Outlook

Socialist Viewpoint, International, Socialist Outlook and their supplements, 1984–2002

Women of the Waterfront

Socialist Outlook no. 99, March 16 1996 · 121 words

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NE OF the most im. the Liverpool docks strike has been the formation of Women of the Waterfront.

After the dockers' defeat in 1989 conditions got worse. The problems caused by new contracts affected the women as much as the men.

These women have had enough of the constant stress caused to evryone in the community by new working condi. COTS Many women had had enough. They got involved in the dispute, whether the men wanted it or not.

There was no way that they would accept the <25,000 pay. off. Instead the women set up their own picket line. Women of the Weterfront picketing the freeport entrance ot Seaforth, Liverpool - with on unexpected cordboord guest Photo Dove Sicker

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