A man confronts the picket line
MERSEYSIDE workers and trade unionists protesting against the “shameful” victimisation of a union representative faced down scabs and angry managers attempting to drive cars into them at their picket line.
Around 100 trade unionists gathered at the gate of the Colloids plastic manufacturing plant in Kirkby, Liverpool, this morning in support of workers who have walked out against the sacking of Unite representative George Gore.
MATT ALLEN salutes the workers and reps who push back against bosses, win for members and make the Unite union what it is
Forty years on, TONY DUBBINS revisits the Wapping dispute to argue that Murdoch’s real aim was union-busting – enabled by Thatcherite laws, police violence, compliant unions and a complicit media
On the 40th anniversary of the Wapping dispute, this Morning Star special supplement traces the long-planned conspiracy that led to the mass sackings of printworkers in 1986 – a struggle whose unresolved injustices still demand redress today, writes ANN FIELD