THE extreme leftwing of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) is urging members to reject the contract negotiated by the union leadership and demands more pay for less work.
The Transport Workers Solidarity Committee says the tentative contract gives employers "a free hand to automate without counter demands of shorter shifts tied to wage increases".
Said the committee's flyer: "Left unchecked, it will gut the ILWU's coastwide power and bury the last militant union in the US."
The union declined comment on the flyer, reported Newark's Journal of Commerce, adding that will hold a rally at 7 pm Tuesday March 31 outside of the international headquarters of the ILWU in San Francisco.
Full-time, unskilled and semi-skilled longshoremen earn an average US$147,000 a year more than double that of degree-holding resident doctors in hospitals, court prosecutors and senior FBI agents, who earn between $63,000 and $67,000 a year.
Citing the ILWU's "proud history of class struggle and the fight for democratic principles codified in the Ten Guiding Principles," the solidarity committee accused the ILWU leadership of flouting those principles, "using top-down control to direct longshore workers to cross picket lines and keep contract negotiations secret".
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26 March 2015 - 22:07
Militant ILWU wants contract offer rejected, demands more pay, less work
THE extreme leftwing of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) is urging members to reject the contract negotiated by the union leadership and demands more pay for less work.
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26 March 2015 - 22:07
Militant ILWU wants contract offer rejected, demands more pay, less work
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