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YouTube - Australia Maritime Workers Memorial Service For Stephen Piper-3 Killed In Five Months
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s398J_R8Vws&feature=sub
MaritimeUnion | July 26, 2010
NSW Premier Kristina Keneally expressed deep sorrow over the death of wharfie Stephen Piper and the awful statistic of 3 deaths on Australian wharves in 5 months.
Filmed, edited and produced by Jamie McMechan Maritime Union Film Unit.

The Premier was visibly moved as Mich-Elle Myers read the email written by Fremantle wharfie Ash Huish, the message encapsulated in "No family should sit and wait at the end of the working day for a loved one who never returns". Ash's words were recited at every service around the country.

Unions leant their support headed by Unions NSW's Secretary Mark Lennon. Wharfies and their families held up banners with the faces of 8 workers killed on the wharves in less than 10 years. One of those bore the smiling face of Nick Fanos, crushed to death at Port Botany in April. Nick's sister Maria bravely held up his banner.

The Sydney service was repeated across the country, lead by the highly emotional and dignified funeral in the Boyd Chapel, Springvale in Melbourne. National Secretary Paddy Crumlin said that the church service was a celebration of the wonderful life of a loving dad and husband. "It was about family and friends from the wharves and all walks of life. They paid homage to the joyful and generous character that was Steven Piper", said Crumlin. A full service could not hold some 200 wharfies who gathered outside the church.

Bay Area Transit Workers Rally To Defend Public Transit-ATU President Attacks SF Mayor Newsom
The SF Mayor "has his head up his ass"
http://blip.tv/file/3821915
Bay area transit workers from the TWU, ATU, UTU and AFSCME along with
supporters in Unite Here and other unions rallied in San Francisco on
6/29/2010 to demand more funding for the operations of public transit
systems. Hundreds of ATU, TWU, UTU, and AFSCME transit workers from
throughout the bay area participated. The rally was called by Save Our Ride
http://www.ourride.org Speakers included the new president of the ATU Ron
Heintzman. Reintzman and others attacked SF Mayor Newsom for pitting
drivers against the public. Reintzman said the SF mayor "has his head up
his ass and is trying to balance the budget on the backs of workers".
Newsom has been endorsed by the San Francisco Labor Council and
California AFL-CIO for Lt. Governor. AC bus drivers of ATU 192 face a
contract confrontation with the bosses this July.
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http://blip.tv/file/3821915

Video-STOP! No SF MUNI Cuts! No Fare Hikes!
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/05/07/18647265.php

The Class Struggle And The ILWU Local 30 Rio Tinto Lockout
http://blip.tv/file/3506853
Six hundred ILWU Local 30 miners in Boron California are in a life and death struggle
with one of the biggest mining companies in the world Rio Tinto. On April 16, 2010
two of the locked out miners and labor supporters joined with them at the British
consulate in San Francisco to demand an end to the union busting.
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Video: ILWU Local 30 Locked Out Rio Tinto Miners Speak- out In SF At UK Consulate
http://blip.tv/file/3499283
Workers rallied at 4/16/2010 at the British Consulate in San Francisco. Two locked out
ILWU Local 30 Rio Tinto miners from Boron, California Tom Owens and Trinidad
Escoval spoke about why they were locked-out and the fight to win their struggle.
For more information on the lockout go to http://boraxminers.com/
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SFO IBT-UAL Shop Steward Joe Prisco On Union Democracy & Union Power
http://blip.tv/file/3445576
On March 6, 2010 SFO IBT-UAL Shop Steward Joe Prisco at a forum talked about the struggle
for democracy and membership power in the IBT UAL locals. The local membership when
they were joined in the IBT were divided up between LA and SF locals by alphabetical names.
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YouTube - NYC TWU Local 100 Pres. John Samuelsen denounces MTA proposed service cuts, job elimination-"Targeted Attack Against New York Workers And Their Families"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs1R_HrWRkI&feature=player_embedded

TWU Local 100 Pres. John Samuelsen denounces MTA proposed service cuts, job elimination

SF TWU250-A Drivers & Riders Rally & March Against Attack On Transit Workers And Public
http://blip.tv/file/3287978

On March 1, 2010 in San Francisco hundreds of MUNI TWU 250-A drivers
and riders joined in rallies and a march to demand that the cutbacks and
attacks on Muni workers end. SF Mayor Newsom and his appointed MTA
board have sought to pit the TWU 250-A drivers against the public by
saying that unless they took concessions on their wages and pensions
the city would have to increase fares for the elderly, students and the
disabled. Already over 100 operators have been layed off by the city.
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YouTube - Boron, California ILWU Local 30 Rio Tinto mine workers denounce company lock-out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2azVh6yV1s&feature=

Video: Stop Chicago Transit Authority CTA Service Cuts-ATU 308 & ATU 241 Members Speak Out

http://blip.tv/file/3010553

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http://ia341309.us.archive.org/0/items/LaborBeatLetsFixChicagosPublicTransit/LFPT.mp4

Chicago public transit riders and workers have become fed up with perennial funding crises that translate into service cuts and attacks on working conditions and jobs. There needs to be a different, positive solution with adequate funding, and transit riders and workers need to control the process and the system. With Mike Pitula, Little Village Environmental Justice Organization; and Erek Slater, CTA Bus Driver. Also Elwood Flowers, ATU 308; Carlos Acevedo, ATU 241; Dan Hrycyk, Financial Sec., ATU 241; Heather Benno, NoCTAcuts.org. 23 minutes.

Photos: Labor Beat
Scenes from "Let's Fix Chicago's Public Transit!"

Elwood Flowers, ATU 308

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