Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
8/3/2019 Caravan Flyer - ComDefILWU -Dec 22 2011
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/caravan-flyer-comdefilwu-dec-22-2011 1/2
Committee to Defend the ILWU
JOIN THE SOLIDARITY CARAVANTO LONGVIEW, WASHINGTON
There’s a war going on against dock-
workers and their amilies in Longview,
Washington—members o International
Longshore & Warehouse Union ILWU
Local 21. They’ve been arrested, beat-
en and their homes have been raided.
They are fghting to protect their union
jobs against EGT Export Grain Terminal,
who are seeking to break the ILWU’s
coast-wide contract established ater
the 1934 San Francisco general strike
and West Coast Maritime strike.
EGT, and their majority partner, Bunge
NA, are trying to bust the ILWU, one o
the most militant, progressive unions in
the U.S. EGT sued the Port o Longview,
claiming they would not recognize ILWU
jurisdiction. On Sept. 8 hundreds o an-
gry longshore workers charged through
the gates o the new EGT grain export
terminal at Longview. Newspapers report-
ed that grain was dumped rom a 107-car
train, and a cyclone ence torn down.
At a time when national union membership
has dropped to a 70 year low o 11.9%,
and private sector workers in unions ell
to 6.9%, this is part o the 1%’s attack to
drive us all to the bottom. Even at these
low membership rates, nationally, medi-
an weekly wages or union members are
$917, compared to $717 or workers notin unions. The 1% not only wants to take
away that extra $200 rom the remain-
ing 14.7 million, who are unionized, but
wants to destroy all unions, especially the
militant ILWU, to keep us rom organizing
to take back what’s rightully ours.
The ILWU is a democratic, bottom-up un-
ion, with an activist rank and fle, which
has a strong history o support or com-
munity issues, standing up against
Apartheid South Arica, against the wa
in Iraq, or the Wisconsin state workers
struggle against union busting. ILWU
Local 10 backed community protests abou
the police murder o Oscar Grant. They
honored picket lines in Occupy Oakland’s
call or a 11/2 General Strike and 12/12
Port Shutdown. Local 10 has pledged ul
support or the Longview struggle, and is
unding or a bus to Longview or the Cara
van when the grain ship comes in.
We need to resist when the 1% pushes
their austerity measures down the throats
o the 99%, or when they treat immigran
workers as scapegoats or the fnancia
crisis. We not only demand jobs or the
unemployed, but union wages and ben
efts. I EGT is successul in its attack on
the ILWU in Longview, it will have a rip
ple eect on all port workers on the West
Coast. Let’s raise the union banner high
An injury to one is an injury to all.
DEFEND ILWU LOCAL 21 AGAINST UNION BUSTING BY EGT
8/3/2019 Caravan Flyer - ComDefILWU -Dec 22 2011
http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/caravan-flyer-comdefilwu-dec-22-2011 2/2
Yes! I Want To Deend ILWU
Local 21 Longshore Workers in Longview, Washington | An Injury to One is an Injury to Al
JOIN THE CARAVAN to Longview
I am interested in:
( ) Outreach ( ) Local pickets ( ) Caravan To Longview, WA ( ) Media/Communication Assistance
( ) Other _________________________________________________________________________________________
Name ____________________________________________________________________________________________
Phone # _______________________________ Email ____________________________________________________
Mail to: P.O. Box 720027 San Francisco, CA 94172 or email to: [email protected]
(labor donated)
EGT is part o “the 1%”—an international
partnership between U.S.-based Bunge
North America, Japanese-based Itochu,
and Korean-based STX Pan Ocean. A ship
hoping to load scab cargo rom the EGT
terminal is expected to arrive in Longview
early in 2012.
The Committee to Deend the ILWU and
the San Francisco Labor Council are help-
ing to organize a Caravan rom Bay Area
to Longview in early 2012, or when the
ship comes in. Support actions are being
organized up and down the West Coast,
nationally and internationally.
The Committee to Deend the ILWU is an
independent committee o rank and fle
trade unionists including ILWU members.
I you want to be part o this critical work-
ing class struggle, please fll out and
send in the coupon below. We need you
and your organization to endorse, par-
ticipate and contribute to this important
campaign o solidarity.
For more inormation email:
Facebook page:
http://www.acebook.com/groups/
256313837734192/
You can view the blog page here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/
CommitteetodeendILWU/
HOW YOU CAN HELP DEFEND LONGVIEW ILWU LOCAL 21 LONGSHORE WORKERS
