Jeremy Corbyn joins striking Port of Liverpool workers
SOCIALIST Campaign Group MPs and RMT leader Mick Lynch crowded onto the Port of Liverpool dockers’ picket line in the morning drizzle today.
Mr Lynch said to cheers that struggles like the dockers’ showed “the working class is back” and said Unite’s record of successful strikes was inspiring other unions in struggle.
Liverpool West Derby MP Ian Byrne told the dockers, who have been on pickets since September 20, that they had the “solidarity of the city and the world,” pointing to the stream of cars and lorries honking in support and the banners from dock workers’ unions in other countries.
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
