ILWU solidarity

An Injury to the ILWU is an Injury to ALL! (Please post widely)
Corporate Greed v. Dock Workers
Which Side Are YOU On?

Come to a Public Meeting about the showdown on the Oakland Docks
Speakers Include:
Jack Heyman, Business Agent, ILWU Local 10*
Sue Sanldlin, Charleston 5 Defense Cmte.* & International Socialist Organization

Saturday, July 27
2pm at the Oakland YWCA
at the corner of 14th St. and Webster St. (three blocks from 12th Street BART)

Contract negotiations continue this week between 10,500 members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the greedy port bosses who control the $260 BILLION worth of goods that flow through West Coast ports every year.
Now the bosses want to layoff 10% to 20% of the workers to get even richer!
They are getting a helping hand from the Bush Administration, which claims that the workers fighting for their rights are a threat to "Homeland Security."
As unemployment rises and the stock market falls, the poor and workers are really suffering while the criminal CEO's get a slap on the wrist and golden parachutes.
A victory for the dock workers will be a victory for defending good, high paying union jobs for Bay Area workers of all races.
On the other side, if the bosses can force the best organized, most mulit-racial & most progressive union in the country to take major concessions, it will signal open season on the rest of the labor movement and the working class and poor people in general.

Come to a Public Meeting about the showdown on the Oakland Docks
Speakers Include:
Jack Heyman, Business Agent, ILWU Local 10*
Sue Sanldlin, Charleston 5 Defense Cmte.* & International Socialist Organization
Saturday, July 27
2pm in at the Oakland YWCA
at the corner of 14th St. and Webster St. (three blocks from 12th Street BART)

Sponsored by the International Socialist Organization, publisher of Socialist Worker newspaper, http://www.socialistworker.org 510-333-4604 for more info. - labor donated - *for identification purposes only