Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 09:17:57 -0500 (EST)
From: Spoon Collective <spoons-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU>
Subject: M-I: Mersey stewards appeal (fwd)




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Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 11:50:06 GMT
From: Keith Standring <itusc-AT-gn.apc.org>

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>(To all trade unionists: please read this appeal from Liverpool
>dockworkers and pass it on to your colleagues in the port
>industries. For background information on the Liverpool Lockout,
>please see http://www.labournet.org.uk)
>
>
>To: Dockers of the World
>From: Sacked Liverpool Dockworkers
>re: International Blockade 20th January 1997
>
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>On Friday 20th December, a full mass meeting of all sacked Liverpool
>dockworkers overwhelmingly rejected the "final offer" from Mersey
>Docks and Harbour Company. Liverpool dockworkers had spent all week
>studying the written offer which had been issued after 6 hours of
>talks on Monday 16th December.
>
>Mersey Docks had refused to enter into the call for free and
>unfettered negotiations. Instead, they stuck to the old formula of
>the failed offers of the past and produced a rigid, non-negotiable
>document that gives no hope of ever achieving dockers' jobs back in
>the Port of Liverpool. The package that they put forward includes an
>offer of a possible 40 ancillary jobs or a redundancy payment of 
>UKp28,000 for the 329 dockers who used to work directly for the
>MDHC.
>
>The young Torside workers whose unfair sackings started the dispute
>in September 1995 were offered nothing at all. The employers believe
>that they should just walk away from the fight and accept total
>defeat.
>
>The offer not only undermines the Liverpool dockworkers fight for
>justice but undermines the whole of the International Dockers'
>Movement that has been built up. If the Port employers in Liverpool
>are successful in defeating us, their blueprint for destroying
>organised labour will be passed on to ports around the world.
>
>For this reason, we appeal to all dockworkers in all ports to join
>an international blockade of Liverpool cargo and of shipping lines
>using the scab port of Liverpool - particularly ACL, CAST, CanMar,
>Zim, Gracechurch, and Andrew Weir Shipping.
>
>The International Transportworkers Federation (ITF) has endorsed our
>call for a Day of Action on 20th January, and we would ask all
>unions organising dockworkers to join the boycott.
>
>Please fax messages of support and pledges of industrial action to
>Liverpool dockworkers at (+44) 151 207 0696, and copy them by e-mail
>to LabourNet <chrisbailey-AT-gn.apc.org>.
>
>Yours in Solidarity,
>
>
>Jim Nolan
>Chairman
>Merseyside Port Shop Stewards
>
>
>
 
 
Keith Standring    (itusc-AT-gn.apc.org)





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