[Seattle-editorial] FEATURE PROPOSAL: ILWU

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--- jonathan lawson <jonathan at indymedia.org> wrote:
> subtitle: ILWU: NO FEDERAL TROOPS ON THE DOCKS
> title: Labor Unites Against Covert White House
> Unionbusting Plans
> 
> The International Longshore and Warehouse Union
> (ILWU) <a 
>
href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=16748">revealed</a>
> 
> this week that the Bush administration has formed a
> <a 
>
href="http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2002/08/140143.php">secret
> White House 
> Task Force</a> to consider possible Federal
> intervention in stalled 
> negotiations between 10,000 west coast longshoremen
> and their employers, 
> represented by the Pacific Maritime Association. The
> Bush task force has 
> reportedly threatened to break up the ILWU's
> coastwide contract, and to 
> invoke a seldom-used provision of the <a 
>
href="http://www.teamsterslocal399.com/Taft.html">Taft-Hartley
> Act</a> 
> allowing the government to prevent strikes when the
> "national health or 
> safety" is imperiled.
> 
> <p>Administration sources say they're discussing
> pre-empting possible ILWU 
> actions by enlisting National Guard troops to
> operate the docks until the 
> union is forced to agree to contract terms. Unions
> charge that the Bush 
> administration and port bosses are trying to exploit
> concerns about 
> national security and a fragile economy, using these
> concerns as an excuse 
> to attack one of the nation's strongest unions.
> 
> <p>In Seattle, 25% of jobs are port-related. In
> Tacoma, 40% are 
> port-related.  If Bush is able to break the back of
> the ILWU, all workers 
> in the Puget Sound will pay the price. On <b>Monday,
> Aug. 12,</b> Seattle 
> unions will hold a <a 
>
href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=16751">March
> & 
> Rally for a Fair Contract for West Coast Longshore
> Workers</a>. At 4:30, 
> after a barbecue at pier 37, union regulars and
> supporters will march along 
> Alaskan Way to rally at the pier 66 Cruise Terminal.
> Many of the area's 
> unions have pledged their participation; and
> simultaneous rallies will take 
> place in <a 
>
href="http://portland.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=15837">Portland</a>
> 
> and in Oakland, site of large ILWU rallies earlier
> this summer.
> 
> <p><a href="http://www.ilwu.org">ILWU | <a 
> href="http://portsolidarity2002.org">Port Solidarity
> Committee 2002</a> | 
> <a href="http://sf.indymedia.org">SF
> Indymedia</a><br>
> <a
>
href="http://www.ilir.uiuc.edu/faculty/images/deathstrikes.pdf">Death
> by 
> Lethal Injunction: National Emergency Strikes Under
> The Taft-Hartley Act 
> (pdf)</a>
> 
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