ILWU California Port Strikers Are Back At The Bargaining Table In Fight To Save American Jobs

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Submitted by Doug Cunningham on July 13, 2010 - 4:05pm
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By Doug Cunningham

Nine hundred ILWU clerical workers returned to work Tuesday at the ports of Los Angeles-Long Beach after a 12 day strike. Contract talks will resume today. ILWU Local 63 Office Clerical unit President John Fageaux says this is a fight for American jobs and job security.

: “We in a fight to save our jobs, to keep these jobs in America where they belong where they've been for the last fifty years. And we're not gonna sit back and watch these jobs get shipped off to overseas, where they can pay people pennies on the dollar to perform this work. It's not right."

Fageaux says the Harbor Employers Association made a $2 billion profit last year and they still want to reach into workers’ pockets and outsource jobs.

: “These companies are makin' the money in America. They're makin' it off the American people, and it should go back to the American workers."