IBU Bay Area Leader Calls For Removal Of ILWU Coast Contract Clause Allowing Scabbing On ILWU Affiliates

IBU Bay Area Leader Calls For Removal Of ILWU Coast Contract Clause Allowing Crossing Of ILWU Picket Lines
Marina V. Secchitano, Regional Director of Inlandboatmen's Union of the Pacific, Marine Division of the International Longshore & Warehouse Union has called for the removal of a clause in the new proposed ILWU PMA coast wide contract that would allow the PMA to order ILWU longshore workers to cross picket lines of ILWU affiliates. The ILWU international has not commented on the letter which challenges the change of language that according to Secchitano will seriously harm the right of ILWU members to take solidarity action even with affiliates of their own union. In the past the International has ordered members of the ILWU to cross picket lines of ILWU Local 63 clerical workers and threatened ILWU Local 30 striking miners that they would withdraw financial support if they put up a picket line on LA docks where scab borax was being loading onto ships by ILWU Local 13 members.
ILWU longshore workers will be voting on the contract in May by mail ballot