Cammell Laird 37
Parliamentary excerpt
That this House remembers the 37 Cammell Laird shipyard workers who, in 1984, were imprisoned for 30 days after occupying their workplace in protest against compulsory redundancies, privatisation and the threatened destruction of their industry; notes that they were subsequently dismissed, lost redundancy and pension rights, and that many struggled to secure stable employment thereafter; recognises that they were trade unionists defending their jobs, livelihoods, families and communities in t...