Liverpool battle will reverberate
Dockers at Seaforth (Liverpool) struck again from Monday 24 October. The current strike will last till 7 November — taking the days of work stoppage up to five weeks. An agreement was reportedly close to being reached in the week starting 17 October until the employer, Peel Ports, reneged by once again tabling redundancies. The legacy of the 1995-98 dispute on the Liverpool docks is felt throughout the current battle: the communities that came together in struggle then are present on the pickets at the port and outside companies such as Atlantic Container Line — which is one of Peel’s biggest...