Masters, Mates, and Pilots and the Inlandboatmen’s Union of the Pacific (IBU) will hold a 4pm rally on Wednesday, March 1st in front of the San Francisco Ferry Building at the foot of Market Street on the Embarcadero. They will be joined by the ILWU Drill team, members of Locals 10, 34, 6, Teamsters, the Sailors Union of the Pacific, the SF Labor Council, and other supporters.

Workers will be protesting the National Parks Service’s (NPS) illegal and union-busting bidding process for their controversial new contract for the Alcatraz Ferry service with the anti-union company Hornblower Yachts, Inc. The Service Contract Act (SCA) of 1965 is a federal law that requires contractors that provide services to the government to pay prevailing wages and benefits, or what the previous contractor paid. Ignoring the law, the NPS awarded the contract to Hornblower, a non-union company. The NPS has argued that the law doesn’t apply to them. On January 6th, the Department of Labor issued a preliminary determination that the law does apply to them and the Alcatraz Ferry Contract, and asked for a response within 21 days if they disagreed. To date no response has been received. Read more

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