"Was a reference to Renee Good spelled out on cargo ship in Tacoma?"

https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article314465172.html

#ReneeGood #ice #uspol #cargoShipping #ports #Tacoma #ILWU

The NDP leadership race just got a little more exciting.

Rob Ashton: "The federal NDP needs to build on what's already working."

#ndp #canpoli #cdnpoli #robashton #ilwu

Today in Labor History November 24, 1984: San Francisco longshore workers (ILWU) refused to unload cargo from a South African ship in solidarity with South Africans fighting to end Apartheid. They went without pay for eleven days, as they continued the boycott, until a federal court forced them back to work under threats of fines and prison. At the time, the U.S. government fully supported the Apartheid regime. Concurrent with this longshore boycott, there were encampments on many U.S. universities, with protesters demanding that their schools divest from South Africa. San Francisco’s ILWU had refused to load and unload South African ships in the past, too, with one of the earliest anti-Apartheid union protests back in 1962 (see image). In 1976, after the legendary Soweto uprising, an African American longshoreman from Oakland named Leo Robinson helped form Local 10’s Southern Africa Liberation Support Committee. The SALSC, was the first anti-apartheid group in an American labor union, helping to raise awareness up and down the West Coast.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #apartheid #racism #solidarity #union #boycott #directaction #ilwu

Today in Labor History August 1, 1938: Police opened fire on 200 unarmed trade unionists protesting the unloading of a ship in Hilo Harbor, on the Big Island of Hawaii, in what became known as "the Hilo Massacre." The protest was in support of striking waterfront workers. 50 workers were injured. Police also used tear gas and bayonets. The workers came from numerous ethnic backgrounds, including Japanese, Chinese, Native Hawaiian, Luso (Portuguese) and Filipino. They belonged to several unions, including the ILWU. They were fighting for equal pay to dockers on the U.S. west coast and for a closed, union shop. Harry Kamoku (depicted in the original woodblock poster shown in this post) was the primary organizer and leader of the strike, as well as a member of Hawaii’s first union to be legally recognized. He was a Chinese-Hawaiian, a longshoreman, born in Hilo.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #union #strike #hilo #hawaii #police #massacre #ilwu

The San Francisco General Strike began on July 16, 1934 in response to the police murders of two longshoremen, Howard Sperry and Nick Bourdoise, July 5, 1934, on Rincon Hill, near the Ferry Building, during the West Coast Maritime Strike.

This sidewalk mural commemorates these events. It is located in front of the ILWU Hall, near Fishermens Wharf.

I remember taking my son to Pier 39 once when he was about six or seven, to play games at the arcade there. On our way back to the car, we passed this mural. He was intrigued. As I was explaining it to him, describing the history, a young longshoreman came out and asked if we'd like to come inside, see the other murals and statues. He gave us the full tour, explaining everything, and my son was completely mesmerized, as was I.

#sanfrancisco #GeneralStrike #ilwu