Dockworkers, mostly onboard security men under the aegis of the
National Dock Labour Board (NDB), have accused the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) of owing them two years salaries.
Before she died, Annette won a six-figure compensation payout from the government on behalf of the now defunct
National Dock Labour Board. Leonard, who was awarded an MBE in 2000 for charity work, said: "To me it's blood money.
Those 'books' were from the
National Dock Labour Board (DLB), set up in the 1940s to make sure dockers had a fallback wage of [pounds sterling]5 a day.
The scale model, right, featured government office blocks, the New Strand shopping centre and the headquarters of the
National Dock Labour Board as part of a multi-million pound redevelopment.
In Barnard v
National Dock Labour Board, the plaintiff dock workers successfully applied for declarations that their suspensions from work were unlawful on the basis that disciplinary functions which had been lawfully delegated by the
National Dock Labour Board to local boards under the Dock Workers (Regulation of Employment) Order 1947, had then been unlawfully sub-delegated by the London Dock Labour Board to a port manager [8].
Always in employment, Doris worked in various jobs - the ammunitions factory on Pengam Road, the Evan Roberts department store, Penfounds Shoe Shop and finally at the
National Dock Labour Board medical centre where she worked for 21 years until she was 80.
The Court of Appeal has now ruled that dockers who were registered under the
National Dock Labour Board scheme can sue the Government if they develop an asbestos-related illness.
Even so, Mersey men were the staunchest supporters of the strike against the proposed ending of the
National Dock Labour Board Scheme in 1989.
The latest information released by the
National Dock Labour Board gives the figure as 13,296.
The
National Dock Labour Board was to move its HQ out of Liverpool and in to Bootle, it was announced.
And Alan's death - five days before his 81st birthday - came as legal action against the
National Dock Labour Board that was responsible for exposing him to asbestos dust dragged on.
During his working life, Francis was employed by the following companies during the following dates:
National Dock Labour Board at Liverpool Docks (1955-1961) Harland &Wolff Ltd (1961-1970) Boyes Turner is trying to trace anyone who recalls working with Francis Grace.