A Cause That United the World ; Mike Chapple Finds Out How the Dock Strike Changed the Lives of the Workers and Their Families
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IT'S the tenth anniversary of a clash that could be likened to a pebble being tossed into a village pond and the resulting waves having repercussions for labour and trade around the world.
The marathon dispute between the Liverpool dockers and the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company lasted 28 months and changed the lives of those involved forever.See the full content of this document
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A Cause That United the World ; Mike Chapple Finds Out How the Dock Strike Changed the Lives of the Workers and Their Families
It started with the sacking of 80 workers at Bootle docks company Torside and ended only after the 300-plus men, some reluctantly, accepted the MDHC's final offer of pounds 28,000 each.
In the meantime, however, the dockers made history.They became folk heroes to many for being the last group of British workers to challenge indirectly the abolition in 1989 of the National Dock Labour scheme. This, they believed, heralded a return to the 'bad old days' of casual labour and the uncertainties in pay and working hours it entailed.Their cause mobilised their fir...See the full content of this document
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