Nothing ‘casual’ about this march at Port of Yarmouth
10th July 2009
Over 100 dockworkers from across the country held a march and
rally yesterday (9th July) in support of the dockers at Great
Yarmouth who face redundancy.
Dockers from Hull, Grimsby, Immingham, Dover, Tilbury, Thames
port, Felixstowe and Southampton joined the dockers from Great
Yarmouth to fight the use of casual labour at the port.
Brendan Gold, Unite national secretary for docks and waterways,
said: “This rally demonstrates that dock workers from across the UK
will stand together to fight employers who plan to make dockers
redundant and replace them with casual labour.
“UK port employers have been put on notice that Unite will not
allow employers to use the current economic downturn as an excuse
to cut jobs and change working practices.”
Mike Gibbons, Unite executive member, added: “We are
increasingly seeing more employers taking on casual labour. This
practice was supposed to have been abolished when the Labour dock
scheme was introduced 20 years ago. There can be no return to
casualisation.
“Dock workers will campaign across Europe and internationally to
stop the hideous practice of casualisation.”
ENDS
More information contact: Mark Di-Toro on 07918 640 579 or
Brendan Gold on 07970 081 526.
Notes to Editors:
Photo available upon request.
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