[SOLIDARITY action in support of the seafarers occupying…]
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SOLIDARITY action in support of the seafarers occupying the two P&O Liverpool-Belfast ferries has already confined nine other P&O ships to port.
And Tuesday saw a call by a meeting of NUS port committee chairpersons and branch secretaries to extend the struggle into an all-out stoppage on all P&O ships.
350 jobs are at stake in the proposed closure of the Liverpool ferry service, and the occupation has provided the necessary stimulus for militant support in an industry where jobs are increasingly under threat.
NUS General Secretary Jim Slater had said that the union would back whatever action was sought by the 18-port committee: and by that token he is now.committed to instruct all NUS members on all P&O vessels to cease work at next port of call.
But as yet the union has not even made the strike official. And the suspicious 18-port committee voted to give a deadline of 12 noon on Friday for its strike call - after which, if no official action is forthcoming, they will act to bring all coastal shipping to a halt.
Such pressure on union leaders is also a model example to other sections of workers entering the struggle in defence of jobs or wages.
But the call should now be extended for solidarity action from dockers and other transport workers to support the seafarers? action and defeat P&0's closure moves.
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