A Fight for All

The dockers' fight is for regular employment, for the conditions that their forefathers won and for the right to collective organisation. Their fight is therefore the fight of millions of men and women throughout Britain, facing uncertainty of employment both day-to-day and long term.

• Everywhere employers are introducing casual labour and individual contracts.
• They want to cut their costs through flexible labour.
• They want workers at their beck and call to be brought to work or discarded at their will.
• Nearly half the labour in Britain today is casual and part-time.
• In education, in services, in industry, in banking and other clerical work there is a rash of individual short-term contracts.

THE DOCKERS' CHARTER

• No return to casual labour.
• Real jobs in a profitable and expanding port for the unemployed of Merseyside
• No victimisation.
• All sacked workers to be reinstated.
• Reinstate trade union recognition, and recognise elected shop stewards.