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Dockers strike looms closer
27th April 1989, Page 7
27th April 1989
Page 7
Page 7, 27th April 1989
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• A national strike ballot of dockers is to go ahead although the Transport & General Workers' Union says it is "not abandoning all hope of a negotiated settlement."
Dock employers are reluctant to even talk to the dock workers, fearing that negotiations would legitmise any strike as a trade dispute.
The employers claim that last Tuesday's union team was "not a constituted negotiating committee" but TGWU general secretary Ron Todd denies agreeing to this. Moreover, he says, the employers did make some small concessions during the session: union leaders were promised that within two weeks they would receive written guarantees from all employers in scheme ports that there would be no return to casual labour.