Dockworkers Protest Iraq War (Shut down parts of West Coast) - NYTimes

[rndmprsn]

GOOD FOR THEM!

about time this happened...can i get an AMEN?!

(posted in GD as well)

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/us/01cnd-port.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Thousands of dockworkers at West Coast ports stayed off the job on Thursday in what their union said was a call for an end to the war in Iraq.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union said more than 25,000 members in 29 ports stayed off the job. The action came despite an order issued Wednesday by an arbitrator directing the union to tell its members to report for work as usual in response to a request from employers.

“Longshore workers are standing down on the job and standing up for America,” Bob McEllrath, the union’s president, said in a statement. “We’re supporting the troops and telling politicians in Washington that it’s time to end the war in Iraq.”...

...Mr. McEllrath said the walkout was not ordered by the union’s leadership, but was the result of a “democratic decision” made by the rank and file in February to demonstrate on May 1, a traditional day for labor activism.

[FtWayneBlue]

1. Amen, Brothers! n/t

[12string]

2. Longshore Worker Moratorium

Good for the Longshoremen.Things like this will be the key to stopping the insanity.Its the people showing their might that will be the deciding factor.It is what finally brought about the end of Viet Nam.I hop[e we see this type of protest more and more.Once again,thank you to the west coast Longshoremen.

[ampad]

3. They shut it down here in Washington

:woohoo: