Israeli ZIM Volans Blocked In Oakland As ILWU 10 Members Refuse To Cross Picket Lines

Hundreds of community and labor protesters blocked the Israeli chartered ship Volans at the Port on Oakland on June 4, 2021. The Zim shipping company threatened the ILWU that they would pull out of the Port of Oakland if the picketing stopped their ships.

The pickets arrived at 5:30 AM in the morning and ILWU local 10 and Local 34 members refused to cross the picket lines. ILWU members including ILWU Local 10 president Trent Willis discussed the history of the ILWU and also the racism against the
Palestinians as a well against Black Americans in the US.

The Block The Ship group with Arab Resource Organizing Committee AROC and the Stop Zim Action Committee SZAC both organized to get to the line and keep it up during first day of the ship's arrival. ZIM in the past left the berth and then tried to come back into the port secretly.

In both 2010 and 2014, pickets were held as well against ZIM owned ships and they have not returned to Oakland since those pickets. Zim also recently signed a ten year agreement with Amazon to deliver goods from China to the US and throughout the world.

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