12/9 Mass Picket Line and Port Shutdown! Support IBU/MM&P Ferry Workers!

by Gurley

Mon, Nov 27, 2006 12:51PM

Mass Picket Line and Port Shutdown! Support IBU/MM&P Ferry Workers!
Saturday December 09
10:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Pier 31 1/2 on the Embarcadero San Francisco

For the past 2 months Bay Area maritime union members have been picketing daily in a struggle to maintain union wages and working conditions.

Terry Macrae's Alcatraz Cruises (a subsidiary of Hornblower) refuses to hire IBU and MM&P members who have worked on the Alcatraz ferry since 1973.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union was born out of the 1934 San Francisco Maritime and General Strike.

Since then the ILWU has maintained good wages and working conditions on the entire Bay Area waterfront. The current assault by Hornblower is a direct attack at the heart of ILWU jurisdiction and demands a powerful response.

In a show of solidarity ILWU Local 10 voted for a port-wide shutdown in support of the IBU and MM&P workers.

This is a call for all union members and their allies to join us on the picket line December 9th at 10:00am

An Injury to One is an Injury to All !
http://www.alcatrazunion.com

For more information: http://www.alcatrazunion.com

§Update ... March at 9:15 !

by Gurley

Mon, Dec 4, 2006 8:25PM

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9
MARCH AND RALLY TO DEFEND WATERFRONT JOBS

9:15 AM MARCH FROM FERRY BUILDING TO PIER 33
10:00 AM RALLY AT PIER 33

ILWU local 10 voted at their last membership meeting to have a stop work meeting and port shutdown to support members of the IBU and MMP in their struggle against anti union Alcatraz Cruises.The local 10 membership recognizes this fight as their fight, that a non union ferry operation in the heart of the waterfront is a direct threat to their own jurisdiction.

Come support the union that took direct action against the US funded death squad government of El Salvador in the 1980s, refused to load cargo for apartheid South Africa, shut down the coast in support of justice for Mumia as well as in solidarity with the anti WTO actions of November 1999 in Seattle, and were shot by the Oakland PD along with demonstrators at the infamous anti war demo on the Oakland docks.

This fight is for everyone who has to go to work for a living and believes in social justice. Make solidarity more than just a nice word for speeches and resolutions!

http://www.alcatrazunion.com

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§any news?

by interested

Sat, Dec 9, 2006 4:16PM

i wasn't able to attend but am wondering what happened today. those who know, please tell.

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§See comment/report by Brendan Collins

by Disappointed participant

Sat, Dec 9, 2006 11:48PM

To answer the above questioner, see the report/comment by Brendan Collins under Marc Norton's article also on the Labor page