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Workers outside Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead
ROYAL FLEET AUXILIARY (RFA) workers launched a 24-hour strike over pay yesterday, the International Day of the Seafarer.
Participation took place in ports and ships across the world following walkouts on May 19.
At the Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead, RMT members were joined in solidarity with 100 Unite and GMB members who would not the cross the picket.
KIM JOHNSON MP places the campaign in the context of the history of the working-class battles of the 1980s, and explains why, just like Orgreave and the Shrewsbury Pickets before it, justice today is so important for the struggles of tomorrow
MARTYN GRAY asks TUC congress to endorse measures that would help stop the present exploitation of seafarers
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’