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Bush Preparing to Invoke Taft-Hartley to End Lockout at Pacific Ports (audio/mpeg 2.4MB) More than two hundred cargo ships are anchored in harbors off the Pacific coast today as a lockout of west coast dockworkers enters its second week. Talks between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association – representing shipping and terminal companies – broke down again late last night, prompting the Bush administration to weigh in on the labor dispute....
Posted: Mon, Oct 7, 2002 12:10pm PDT
Bush Preparing to Invoke Taft-Hartley to End Lockout at Pacific Ports (audio/mpeg 2.4MB) More than two hundred cargo ships are anchored in harbors off the Pacific coast today as a lockout of west coast dockworkers enters its second week. Talks between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association – representing shipping and terminal companies – broke down again late last night, prompting the Bush administration to weigh in on the labor dispute....
Posted: Mon, Oct 7, 2002 12:05pm PDT
10/6 4PM LaborLine Radio On Oakland ILWU Rally LaborLine Radio will program some of the statements made at the ILWU Support Rally in Oakland on Saturday October 5, 2002...
Posted: Sun, Oct 6, 2002 11:54am PDT
Enviromentalists to Join ILWU on Picket Line 10/7 Environmentalists to join portworkers at picket line in Oakland on 10/7; Statement of Support for the ILWU from Organizations and Leaders in the Environmental Movement...
Posted: Sat, Oct 5, 2002 5:49pm PDT
WE WIN! FREE SPEECH VICTORY IN FRESNO 
Anti-sweatshop/Free Speech victory in Fresno...
Posted: Sat, Oct 5, 2002 5:48pm PDT
Bush, Feinstein, and the PMA: Declaring war on workers is a battle you are bound to lose 
The Pacific Maritime Association has LOCKED OUT ILWU portworkers in an attempt to back them down in their struggle for a fair contract....
Posted: Sat, Oct 5, 2002 3:01pm PDT
Emergency Picketline for Longshore workers Emergency Picketline for Longshore workers at Port of Oakland on Saturday, October 5, 2002, 10 am. Activists/supporters are coming from all over the Bay Area and Northern California to support the locked out ILWU vs. the PMA....
Posted: Fri, Oct 4, 2002 10:08pm PDT
Emergency Picketline Rally The Portworkers Solidarity Committee -- a broad-based coalition of
unionists and activists that was formed to build support for the ILWU
in its contract dispute with the PMA -- calls on you to join with a
caravan of Teamster truck drivers from Stockton, the San Francisco
Labor Council and the Alameda Central Labor Council at an Emergency
Picketline Rally on Saturday, October 5 at 10 a.m. at Port View Park
in the Port of Oakland...
Posted: Fri, Oct 4, 2002 8:33pm PDT
10/10: General Strike in Israel A general strike is scheduled to take place in Israel commencing on a small scale on Oct 10 and broadening thereafter. The Zionist government cannot deliver both guns and butter....
Posted: Fri, Oct 4, 2002 7:23pm PDT
BILLY BRAGG: POWER IN A UNION (video/x-pn-realvideo 1.3MB) FOR THE ILWU -- BILLY BRAGG, NYC, FEB. 1, 2002 DEMONSTRATIONS VS THE WEF
3 min....
Posted: Fri, Oct 4, 2002 12:20pm PDT
18-year-old filmmaker's feature film to be shown at film festival in San Francisco 18-year-old Canadian director to have feature film screened at Hollywood Underground Film Festival in San Francisco. He beet the odds by not having any experience or any money, and to make matters worse he has a terminal lung disease. The film is set to close out the festival at 10 pm on October 28....
Posted: Fri, Oct 4, 2002 10:56am PDT
ILWU locked Out 
The ILWU was locked out of the docks on the West Coast Monday morning, September 30. Below are some images taken at the Port of Oakland Wednesday evening, October 2....
Posted: Thu, Oct 3, 2002 5:50pm PDT
Audio: The United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America Oppose Iraq War Peter Knowles is President of UE District 2, which represents workers in New England and upper New York. He was one of the sponsors of the international union's resolutions against an invasion of Iraq....
Posted: Thu, Oct 3, 2002 1:10pm PDT
Support SF Day Laborers at 10/17 Planning Commission Meeting Please attend this critical meeting which will determine the future site location of the SF Day Labor Program....
Posted: Thu, Oct 3, 2002 11:02am PDT
ILWU Cartoon 
Attached is a copy of the ILWU cartoon titled "PMA's idea of Federal Mediation" which has been released by the ILWU local 10 leadership to the media for publication....
Posted: Wed, Oct 2, 2002 6:16am PDT
ILWU Set up Pickets in Oakland 
9/30 Locked out portworkers set up pickets at the gates to protect from non union workers and independent truckers from attempting to enter the docks....
Posted: Tue, Oct 1, 2002 5:16pm PDT
Action Alert! Burlington Coat Factory - Cloaked in Oppression 
This winter, help stop dictatorship in Burma: Burlington Coat Factory is helping support Burma's military regime by retailing huge quantities of "Made in Burma" products. Please take a minute to tell this company to end support for forced labor and stop the retail of products from Burma!
Write Burlington Coat Factory at Customer.Mail@coat.com...
Posted: Mon, Sep 30, 2002 10:13am PDT
support the dock workers US shippers lock out dockworkers on West Coast...
Posted: Mon, Sep 30, 2002 6:44am PDT
5 deaths of longshore workers prove hazardous conditions There have been 5 deaths of longshore workers this year on the docks, demonstrating the hazardous working conditions. The World Socialist Website provides one perspective on what is to be done....
Posted: Mon, Sep 30, 2002 6:06am PDT
ILWU Back to Work on Sunday in Oakland (video/x-pn-realvideo 27.2MB) Richard Mead, President of ILWU local 10 (Oakland) spent about an hour and a half this morning with several reporters. We were from KQED, AP and SF-IMC. This 9 min video is about the first day back after the lockout....
Posted: Sun, Sep 29, 2002 8:40pm PDT
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