Dockers insist on getting their old jobs back.
Mersey dockers - Ron Dellums writes to Tony Blair 22 April 1997. ILWU Conference supports Liverpool 22 April 1997. The two resolutions of support. TGWU Executive Statement on the Liverpool docks is defeated by Conference on a show of hands. The elected TGWU General Executive Council on 1 December ruled out a reckoning of the union's conduct of the Liverpool docks dispute when the Chair ruled that there would be no debate on the motions, and a challenge was heavily defeated.