Longshore workers plan to shut down ports for May Day
27th April 2008
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Loading ...Lede: The May Day antiwar shutdown of west coast ports is shaping up to be a real bottom-up rank and file action. Doug Cunningham has more.
West coast long shore workers have voted to stop work for eight hours during the day shift on May 1st, shutting down west coast ports to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Clarence Thomas is with the Port Workers May Day Organizing Committee in San Francisco.
[Thomas]: “We believe that only in a peaceful world is it possible for there to be the kinds of gains that all working people need in order to have any kind of economic sustainability.”