They merited Bush utilizing Taft-Hartley in 2002 ("the slave labor bill"), and shut down the West Coast in honor of Seattle '99, in solidarity with the protesters -- and these folks are fairly well paid, but always seem more militant, disciplined, and willing to fuck with bosses & in big, socially meaningful and/or symbolic ways. What's their secret?
-B.
Joseph Catron wrote:
"On Thursday, May Day, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union will declare an eight-hour strike to protest the war in Iraq."
Doug Henwood wrote:
"What makes them like this? And unlike every other union in the USA?"