Posted on 04/29/2015 5:59:34 PM PDT by markomalley
International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10 in the Bay Area will use its monthly stop-work meeting on Friday to idle the ports of Oakland and San Francisco to protest recent police killings of African Americans.
The executive board and membership of Local 10 aligned its “Union Action to Stop Police Killings of Black and Brown People” with International Workers’ Day, which is celebrated on May 1 in many countries.
Port of Oakland spokesman Mike Zampa confirmed there will be no vessel, yard or gate operations on Friday’s first shift. Vessel loading and unloading are scheduled to resume on the second shift Friday. Port customers and vendors have been notified, and the temporary suspension of cargo-handling activities isn’t expected to have a lasting effect on port operations, Zampa said.
ILWU locals are allowed to have one stop-work meeting each month to discuss union matters. Local 10’s meeting had been scheduled for the evening shift on Thursday. Local 10 proposed to employers, represented by the Pacific Maritime Association, that the stop-work meeting be held instead on Friday’s day shift as part of May Day activities in the Bay Area that will include a march and rally at Oakland City Hall. The PMA did not object.
Local 10 is expressing outrage at police killings of persons of color, including recent incidents in Ferguson, Missouri; New York; and Charleston, South Carolina.
OH PLz. Solidarity muh butt.
Good excuse for a day off.
unions showing solidarity with criminals? Shocking.
Walmart Shoppers are greatly saddened? *SMIRK*
PMA IMO IS just like the GOPe.
Mexico will gladly take the business at much less cost.
How many members of Union Local 10 are Black?
6% of San Francisco residents are Black.
That’s less than half the national average, which is more than 13%.
Solid between the ears.
Unions suck.
“May Day activities”, eh?
Isn’t May Day traditionally a big COMMUNIST holiday?
May Day is appropriate as in “May Day....May Day....we’re going down.”
I refuse to use the term for Americans that are many generations removed from any ties to the continent of Africa, much less any particular country therein. In reality they are foreigners to those who actually live in Africa.
that’s a good way to fill the lost work with everybody leaving the ports for Long Beach California
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