Please share this contribution about the Liverpool Dockers’ strike, global union solidarity, democracy, and betrayal by Jack Heyman, a dockworker from California. He spoke at a panel discussion of Mike Carden’s book - A History of the Liverpool Dockers: rebellion and betrayal, about the Liverpool Docks strike from 1995-1998. Jack says “Any young worker who is interested in trade union organizing should read Mike’s book which movingly documents the necessity of fighting to implement decisions democratically taken by the membership but denied by an ossified, class collaborationist trade union bureaucracy.”
Jack also covers the legacy of the defeat, the formation of the International Dockworkers Council, and calls for the once exemplary IDC to reverse its May 2022 damaging change to its structure and political direction.
At: http://labournet.net/docks2/2208/heyman1.html