Anti-war longshore work stoppage scheduled
By Richard Becker
In a great boost to the March 20
anti-occupation mobilization, International Longshore and
Warehouse Union Local 10, representing port workers in the San
Francisco Bay area, voted at its Jan. 15 membership meeting to
hold a Stop Work meeting on March 20, to shut down San
Francisco Bay ports to protest the war and occupation of
Iraq.
Unique among U.S. unions, the Longshore and Warehouse Union
has a long history of stopping work in support of progressive
causes, ranging from the struggle against apartheid in South
Africa to protests of U.S. wars in Vietnam and Central America
to support for death row political prisoner Mumia
Abu-Jamal.
The Stop Work meeting will be held in solidarity with the
actions planned in San Francisco and around the world. The
local will be mobilizing for the San Francisco march and rally,
and is calling on other locals on the West Coast to hold
similar Stop Work meetings.
Reprinted from the Jan. 29, 2004, issue of
Workers World newspaper
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