There will be a May Day Organizing Committee meeting Wednesday April 16 at 7PM at the Seafarers' Center in the port of Oakland. That's the West Oakland BART stop. We'll have reports on the nationwide Port Truckers May Day Strike, threats from port employers, the May Day poster, new labor support, linking up with the immigrants' rights marches and logistics.

We'll be discussing the Organizing Com. support for our May Day march and rally. Reports from Tacoma, Seattle and Portland as well as from the port truckers. Bring a friend.

The ILWU West Coast Caucus voted that they would close the west coast ports on May 1, 2008 to protest the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The proposed agenda is

• 1) the successful May 19th anti-war demo in the port of Oakland and the ILWU's honoring the picket line
• 2) the RMT Convention in Britain
• 3) Labor Fest and the participation of the South African union leader
• 4) Financial report.

The Waterfront Workers Solidarity Committee will meet and discuss the support work for the campaign to defend union jobs at Alcatraz Ferry/Hornblower

The proposed agenda is:

• 1) the Hornblower struggle
• 2) Labor and the War
• 3) the ILWU situation
• 4) the RMT (Britain) Convention
• 5) Doro-Chiba (Japan) fightback
• 6) the new TWSC website

Dear Friends,

Don't miss the SF Labor Council's upcoming program meeting on Monday, January 22. The program will focus on the Iraq War and include a report back from the U.S. Labor Against the War (USLAW) Convention as well as a discussion on how to de-fund the war. The program will include a presentation by an antiwar soldier.