Dockers plan national strike for agreement. "FICHTER) PAPER
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10p plus postage from NLWYM, BM Box 5277, London WCIN 3XX. CLASS FIGHTER Steering Committee - Sunday May 9 1lam to 4pm, Keskidee Centre, Gifford St, London N1. Open to all Class Fighter supporters.
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The docks were reorganised in the late '60s and completely decasualised. Dockers went to permanent employers, and the NDLB became a fall-back employer, to 'hold' the unemployed dockers at a basic minimum wage.
The dockers put up tremendous fight, involving mass strikes, against was dock work can be done far from the docks - and from dockers' wages and hard-won protective conditions and practices.
Thus the drive of the employers has been to move port work from the ports. This sparked the 1972 clashes with the Heath government that led to five dockers' pickets being arrested under the anti-union Industrial Relations Act and freed under press### Spark Dockers are planning a national stoppage for May 10th unless the government begins talks about extending the "NDLS to include the 4000 dockers in ports like Felixstowe who are still outside it.
Actions like this will be unlawful under the anti-union laws now being rammed through Parliament. HEALTH SERVICE activists meeting: Sunday May 2, 1pm to 5pm, at the Labour Club, Bristol St, Birmingham (opposite the 'Night Out'").
NATIONAL EDUCATION FIGHTBACK meeting: Saturday May 8, in Manchester. Details: phone Kurshad at Manchester Area NUS.
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