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ILWU Local 19 Casuals - Welcome!
Description
Early on, the ILWU fought anti-labor policies: Cold War witchhunts against trade unionists, racist Jim Crow laws and lynch mobs in the South. It helped California's Mexican farmworkers when few other unions would. The ILWU always stood strong for civil liberties, economic justice and racial equality.
In the course of these historic struggles, it won massive gains for its members—workers who had always been mistreated and looked down on. Such achievements made West Coast longshoremen some of the most highly respected and best paid blue-collar workers in America.
Recently the ILWU has continued its long tradition of solidarity. Longshore workers have taken job actions to assist workers around the globe.... Boycotting ships over struggles in apartheid South Africa.... Honoring picket lines to support striking dockers in Liverpool, England.... Doing the same for locked out Kaiser Steelworkers here in Washington State.... Boycotting ships carrying dangerous toxic wastes to be dumped near our rivers, right here in Washington.... And shutting down the West Coast to all international trade during the 1999 WTO meeting in Seattle.
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