TWSC/AALC Seattle ILWU Longshore/Transportation Worker Events On 6/8 & 6/9
TWSC/AALC Seattle ILWU Longshore/Transportation Worker Events On 6/8 & 6/9
May Day 2008 –
When the Ports Stood Down
How The Militant Union Protest Was Organized
Local 10 contingent in May Day 2008 march along San Francisco’s Embarcadero.
SPEAKERS: GABRIEL PRAWL, Local 19 member,
Co-chair, African American Longshore Coalition
CLARENCE THOMAS, Local 10 May Day organizer
JACK HEYMAN, Local 10 May Day organizer
SEE: Video of the historic May Day '08 West Coast Ports
Shutdown Demanding:
Stop the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,
Withdraw troops now – NO PEACE, NO WORK!
DISCUSSION PERIOD TO FOLLOW PRESENTATIONS
WHEN: Monday, June 8, 2009 @ 7 pm
WHERE: Olympic Room, Mezzanine Level, Westin Hotel
* Free May Day posters and buttons
Organized by the Transport Workers Solidarity Committee (www.transportworkers.org)
and the African American Longshore Coalition
Dump TWIC
the new anti-union
waterfront
screening program
ILWU’s historic fights against
government screening and the
lessons for today's struggle
Speaker: Jack Mulcahy,
former Local 8 business agent,
co-editor Maritime Worker Monitor
In 2002 contract struggle,
PMA locked out longshore workers
WHEN: Tuesday, June 9, 2009 @ 7 pm
WHERE: Labor Temple
2800 1st Ave. (corner Broad Ave.), Seattle
ILWU Convention delegates can take a short monorail ride to Seattle Center,
then walk 4 blocks to 2800 1st Ave.
Organized by the Transport Workers Solidarity Committee
www.transportworkers.org