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Back to index of Nerve 17 - Winter 2010
1911 Transport Strike Calendar - December 2011
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Igniting the spirit - Tom Mann catches up with a modern-day politician while Nick Clegg clutches at the toga-tails of David Cameron (Original artwork from John O'Neill) |
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1 Rail employers agree to meet unions in London | 2 | 3 2,000 carters at St Martin’s Hall vote for strike action | 4 Cammell Lairds electricians resume work after 10-day strike | ||
| 5 Report lists medical complaints of Liverpool telephone girls (nervous breakdowns, fainting fits) | 6 | 7 Playhouse says appointment of Charles Brookfield as examiner of plays discredits censorship laws | 8 Liverpool author applies to court for return of play scripts not returned by the censors | 9 Coal carters meet with employers and resolve dispute | 10 Barmen and managers resolve to organise a trade union | 11 800 short carters strike for better wages and conditions |
| 12 Second day of strike by 400 bargemen on Leeds-Liverpool canal | 13 Stonemasons union resolves to try to unite 23 building unions | 14 | 15 Carters dispute with city council is settled |
16 | 17 | 18 Short carters dispute temporarily resolved till next month |
| 19 | 20 Liverpool railway goods workers plan to form new union in New Year | 21 | 22 Transport unions order boycott of Dundee steamers at other ports including Liverpool | 23 Telephone employees protest that January takeover by Post Office will reduce wages | 24 | 25 |
| 26 | 27 | 28 Liverpool trade expected to be reduced by lock-out at Lancashire mills | 29 G B Shaw gives lecture at Walker Art Gallery | 30 | 31 | |
| Also in this month... Rail dispute settled, still without full union recognition (result of strike ballot is not published) (11th) Miners are set to issue national strike ballot in campaign for minimum wage. |
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