Throughout the history of the Liverpool docks, known as Mersey Docks and Harbour Company , there have been numerous strike actions by dock workers, although some have been part of larger industrial action affecting other trades and union workers. The most lengthy and best remembered of contemporary times was the dispute during 1995-1998 .
6-556: Some examples of industrial actions taken prior to the mid-20th century included the dock strike of 1890 and the 1911 Liverpool general transport strike . A strike in late 1967 affected Liverpool and Birkenhead , though docks in and around London were also affected. The strike involved around 16,000 workers and caused interference with trade exports, with pay systems a core factor. Just two years later in July 1969, dockers again struck with colleagues from Birkenhead, involving 11,000 men over
12-476: A dispute regarding handling goods at an Aintree container base. A few years later in 1972, Liverpool dockers joined in a national dock strike to safeguard jobs, protesting against redundancy plans from firms using cheaper casual labour. The longest known dispute, which was technically not a strike as the workforce were all dismissed, was the Liverpool dockers' dispute (1995–98) that ended with settlement pay and
18-449: A few job reinstatements. This article related to the history of England is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . 1911 Liverpool general transport strike Tom Mann Winston Churchill The 1911 Liverpool general transport strike , also known as the great transport workers' strike , involved dockers , railway workers, sailors and other tradesmen. The strike paralysed Liverpool commerce for most of
24-441: The syndicalist Tom Mann , was formed to represent all of the workers in dispute. Many meetings were held on St. George's Plateau, next to St. George’s Hall , on Lime Street , including the rally on 13 August in which police carried out a baton charge a crowd of 85,000 people, who had gathered to hear Tom Mann speak. The event became known as "Bloody Sunday". In the police charges and subsequent unrest that carried on through
30-410: The following night, over 350 people were injured. 3,500 British troops had become stationed in the city. Two days later, soldiers of the 18th Hussars opened fire on a crowd on Vauxhall Road, injuring fifteen, two fatally: John Sutcliffe, a 19-year-old carter, was shot twice in the head, and Michael Prendergast, a 30-year-old docker, was shot twice in the chest. An inquest into their deaths later brought in
36-547: The summer of 1911. It also transformed trade unionism on Merseyside . For the first time, general trade unions were able to establish themselves on a permanent footing and become genuine mass organisations of the working class. Strike action began on 14 June when the National Sailors' and Firemen's Union announced a nationwide merchant seamen's strike. Solidarity action in support of the seamen led to other sections of workers striking. A strike committee, chaired by
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