For example, the relatively high wages received by dockworkers enabled them to evade pressure to work.
I have reviewed the national insurance contribution rates paid by mariners and registered dockworkers.
We have protected our own national dockworkers against unfair competition from countries that apply entirely different working conditions.
That applies not only to farms but to business, industry, commerce, the docks and the dockworkers, and every other form of human activity.
Consequently, charges will be made against the dockworker.
The union has a proud record of fighting for the rights of dockworkers and the creation of what became the dock labour scheme.
Are they prepared to have a public inquiry, into the dockworkers' industry and into the lamp rings?
In the same period 34,361 registered dockworkers left the industry under the national employers' release arrangements.
