The World - News from June 9, 1989
British dockworkers, fighting the planned abolition of a jobs-for-life guarantee, paralyzed major ports with wildcat strikes. The National Assn. of Port Employers said 900 dockworkers walked out at Tilbury in London and about 1,000 went out in Liverpool, crippling the country’s two biggest ports.
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