[Seattle-editorial] ILWU

[anarch3m]

Here is the weeks content of meaningful posts to Seattle, mostly press release stuff.  Analysis of the injunction (REMEMBER its against the employee for a lockout, its NOT against the union for walking out.  Plewase lets emphasise this point? Job w Justice supplies some issues baclkground (5 dead in speedups...) and International solidarity, which might just well go beyond the East Coast Longshoremen and their interest, being under a separate union coalition, and different contracts also (divide and conquer?)Remember thge posts about North European Docks embargoing Israel some months back?  There are whispers of an Iraq War byoycott on this coast. Though it would be hell to practice here at home, perhaps this could be realized by judicious suggestion...

walt
Seattle


Federal Judge Issues Taft-Hartley Injunction to End Lockout by(Alan Benjamin is a co-coordinator of the Continuations Committee of the Open World Conference. He is a delegate from OPEIU Local 3 to the San Francisco Labor Council.)
http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=18703&group=webcast
it may also have been posted to S.F., i posted Seattle from an email

Truth you won't find in the Times or P-I about the Port LOCKOUT 
http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=18701&group=webcast

International union solidarity 
The ICFTU represents 157 million workers in 225 affiliated organisations 
in 148 countries and territories. ICFTU is also a member of Global 
Unions: 
http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=18626&group=webcast

Jobs with Justice Update /The Real Lockout Story: 5 Dockworkers Dead 
http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=18617&group=webcast


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