| In 1995 some 500 dockers were sacked for taking solidarity action with workers employed by a minor dockyard contractor. |
| Business became so bad that many dockers lost their jobs and the number of ships sailing to and from British ports dwindled to almost nothing. |
| His pictures split and shimmy from one group of people to another, whether it's miners, dockers or shipbuilders. |
| When the stewards were sentenced to three months' imprisonment, the industrial action spread to include dockers, who closed the port of Belfast. |
| A powerful half-page photo showed gaunt, desperate-looking London dockers queuing at the dock gate in a dim half-light. |
| The dockers went on strike in July and pit deputies in the union threatened to strike in October. |
