ILWU to shut down ports to protest war
ILWU To Shut Down All West Coast Ports To Protest War
On May 1, all 29 ports on the U.S. West Coast are to be shut down by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) in protest against the U.S. war on Afghanistan and Iraq. The Bay Area ILWU local was the first American union to condemn the war. In April 2003, as invading U.S. troops reached Baghdad, six longshoremen were injured and a union official was arrested as police fired on hundreds of antiwar protesters in the port of Oakland.
This is a great effort by the ILWU to shut down ports in protest. Another great example of labor being against the war. I wonder if any mainstream press will pick this story up as well.
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