[lbo-talk] Longshore union strikes against war

B. docile_body at yahoo.com
Thu May 1 04:53:52 PDT 2008


Yeah, how can the ILWU kick so much ass?T

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?"



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