Workers Solidarity Movement

We are using the WSM twitter account to provide you with live updates from WSM members involved in this struggle and to let you know of developments and new information as soon as we become aware of them.

SIPTU members at the MTL depot in Dublin Port have been on strike since the beginning of July, resisting forced redundancies and pay cuts. The company shipped in scabs from the North and Britain on day one to steal the dockers’ jobs, and also got a High Court injunction preventing effective picketing. We will be using the WSM twitter account to provide live updates from the struggle.

We are using the WSM twitter account to provide you with live updates from WSM members involved in this struggle and to let you know of developments and new information as soon as we become aware of them.

Some relevant tweets as they were posted

Dublin docks protest 200 assembled on east wall road, meetin union delegations at the point another march from ringsend at docks

Met union members including dock workers from Belfast and Liverpool and have crossed east link bridge crowd has grown to 300

2 workers have gone into post authority to take action against MTI as they own docks.

Speeches from Phil Mac Fadden (Chair of Dublin council of trade unions), Oliver Mac Donagh (branch organiser SIPTU) and Ken Fleming (International Transport Workers Federation), Kevin Doherty (Belfast Trades Council), Eamon Devoy (TEEU), Frank Leahy (antwerp and international dockers), Joe O'Flynn (SIPTU, John Walsh (SIPTU shop steward), Joe Mooney (community), Nicola Caulfield (striker), Peter Bunting (ICTU)

Just announced Rotterdam has been shut down in solidarity.

Docks has been blocked by crowd for last hour as well.

Mass tresspass underway at MTL dockyards, several hundred involved