From: obu-AT-teleport.com Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 12:57:06 -0800 (PST) Subject: AUT: Liverpool dockers supporters occupy Cardiff cranes >PRESS RELEASE Monday 24th November 1997 for immediate release > >LIVERPOOL DOCKERS SUPPORTERS OCCUPY CARDIFF CRANES > >At approximately 6.00 am this morning sacked Liverpool dock workers and >their supporters in the South Wales Support Group occupied two gantry >cranes 60 feet over the Coastal Terminal on Cardiff docks. Coastal >Container Line is 100% owned by Mersey Docks and links Cardiff with Dublin >and Belfast 5 times a week. >Three demonstrators have taken up positions inside the gantry cranes >causing work to stop on the Coastal vessel "KIRSTEN", while twenty five >pickets at the main gates of the port are peacefully demonstrating in >support of the dismissed Liverpool dock workers who now face a third >Christmas on their own picket lines in the Port of Liverpool. >Mariam Kamish, one of the leaders of the Liverpool dockers support group in >South Wales speaking this morning from the occupied crane declared that >they intended "to continue to occupy the gantry cranes for as long as >possible in protest against the sacking of 500 Liverpool dockers in >September 1995 together with the use of casual labour in the majority of UK >ports". >The peaceful occupation follows-on from last week's successful picket which >sealed off the Port of Cardiff for two hours last week, causing severe >congestion and delays to Mersey Docks traffic in the port. > >mobile (inside occupied crane): +(44) 385 232 400 >Merseyside Port Shop Stewards: +(44) 151 207 3388 > > > >----- End of forwarded message ----- --- from list aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
Display software: ArchTracker © Malgosia Askanas, 2000-2005