AUT: Liverpool dockers supporters occupy Cardiff cranes

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>PRESS RELEASE         Monday 24th November 1997      for immediate release
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>LIVERPOOL DOCKERS SUPPORTERS OCCUPY CARDIFF CRANES
>
>At approximately 6.00 am this morning sacked Liverpool dock workers and
>their supporters in the  South Wales Support Group occupied two gantry
>cranes 60 feet over the Coastal Terminal on Cardiff docks. Coastal
>Container Line is 100% owned by Mersey Docks and links Cardiff with Dublin
>and Belfast 5 times a week.
>Three demonstrators have taken up positions inside the gantry cranes
>causing work to stop on the Coastal vessel "KIRSTEN", while twenty five
>pickets at the main gates of the port are peacefully demonstrating in
>support of the dismissed Liverpool dock workers who now face a third
>Christmas on their own picket lines in the Port of Liverpool.
>Mariam Kamish, one of the leaders of the Liverpool dockers support group in
>South Wales speaking this morning from the occupied crane declared that
>they intended "to continue to occupy the gantry cranes for as long as
>possible in protest against the sacking of 500 Liverpool dockers in
>September 1995 together with the use of casual labour in the majority of UK
>ports".
>The peaceful occupation follows-on from last week's successful picket which
>sealed off the Port of Cardiff for two hours last week, causing severe
>congestion and delays to Mersey Docks traffic in the port.
>
>mobile (inside occupied crane):  +(44) 385 232 400
>Merseyside Port Shop Stewards: +(44) 151 207 3388
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