500 Dockworkers in Liverpool, England have been unjustly fired for exercising internationally recognised labour rights. The workers were 'sacked' by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company for refusing to cross a picket line. The British government has made this possible through anti-trade union laws designed to cripple the ability of trade unionists to protect their rights.The Transportation Trades Department recognises the importance of international solidarity with workers throughout the world. Unjust laws have a way of spreading throughout industrial countries in the name of 'global competition'.
Therefore, be it resolved:
- that the TTD will support and assist any industrial actions by the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, the International Longshoremen's Association and the International Transport Workers Federation to protest at ports where vessels are known to be loading/discharging cargoes to and from the port of Liverpool; and
- TTD unequivocally condemns the unjust firing of 500 Liverpool dockworkers.
