From: LabourNet <chrisbailey-AT-gn.apc.org> (by way of Zeynep Tufekcioglu <zeynept-AT-turk.net>)
Subject: M-NEWS: Message from Liverpool dockers to Santos port workers
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 16:02:25 +0300


To Santos port workers from Liverpool dockers

At a mass meeting of the 500 sacked Liverpool dockers, their families
and supporters, on 11 April, the courageous struggle of the Brazilian
dock workers in the port of Santos was fully reported.

We salute your stand against the policies of privatisation.  These
policies, aligned to deregulation, have adversely affected dock
workers and trade unionists the world over.

Liverpool dock workers have had to fight against privatisation and
deregulation in the 19 months of their struggle.  In the port of
Liverpool, as it now stands, workers' rights have been totally
eradicated.

We condemn the actions of the Brazilian government in using the might
of military police and threatening the intervention of the army.

Liverpool dock workers will do all in their power to publicise the
brave fight of the Santos port workers, including at the mass March
for Social Justice taking place in London on 12 April.  We call on the 
world wide dockers' international movement to lend its support to your
fight.

Merseyside Port Shop Stewards 11 April 1997