their employer, Research Council, in legal action research vessel Discovery. venor, MUSA NOGAN, We had a five day stopSeptembe dock John foundland. At first we decide• or a za-nour stoopare. ou extendeo l атет .union harrassment from the send a message healthworkers dill under siege from LIlt government, nau unere were other supporting them, even thousands of miles aw This longest Wal of industria alliul any workers took in sondaril with the healthworkers, and therefore has nationa significance • sailing we hac promise in writing ron employer that there would be victimisatior But ncalllworkcis rive day stopoace made ung captain mad at us After problem had arisen on watch , the captain acey ed order. Burefusio sin accused refusing misunderstanding. pt it cap tain had to accept it. disciplinary charges the saw the CreW danger viction con imposed an overtime ban fo fur• a walling agalist auy Iner dulcinols.
• al essenta services especially safety, were maintained No disciplinary action o charges mad time. But when we returned t Britain on leave. we were tolc went charges have been mace against us under the Merchant Shipping Act about discipline Tor oul two day bycitic val Socialist Challenge SEVENTEEN seafarers have been sacked by the National Environmental October and threatened after giving magnificent solidarity to the healthworkers. The seafarers, mainly from South Wales, were working on the Their elected conspoke to BARRY WILKINS about the significance of the dispute.
They are using this Act as a lo phosetote to see us Employment Act would be explosive. Because of th national significance of wick We have full backing from demanding nappens NERC vessels are also bein halted. The NERC must be hit by trade union action to win this dispute The NERC has offices in Barry picketed thest offices thre support from healthworker: South miates. We haalse over oroad campaign nealinworkers alle lodges of the South Wale miners in support.
Workers In wo carol hospitals have taken stoppages support trace union leaders like Rodne Bickerstaffe Emiyn Williams of the South Was I l ALIS kind of trad union nich isole oution con solidarity action to our problem edit a to her workers.
The NERC cannot get us for our industrial defending ourselves against the threat o They must not be allowed to succeed. We will fight them all the way, with the growin of SO DOTI workers in South Wales.
20 November 1982
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any dustrial solidarity action
reinstatement core re Discovery will not mose until