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The following resolution passed at the San Francisco
ILWU Local 10 Executive Board meeting February 8, 2000.
Defend the Charleston Longshore Union
Whereas, in January, hundreds of longshoremen in the
port of Charleston, South Carolina courageously protested against the
scab Winyah Stevedoring operation, and
Whereas, this new non-union operation was set up in collusion with the
Danish shipping line, Nordana, and the South Carolina States Port
Authority, and
Whereas, 600 cops from throughout the state were called in to suppress
ILA Local 1422 members from rightfully defending their union and their
jobs, and
Whereas, 10 were injured and 9 longshoremen arrested by the police using
concussion grenades, helicopters, tear gas, shotguns and night sticks,
and
Whereas, this blatant attack against union longshoremen poses a threat
to organized dockworkers around the world,
Therefore we call on our fraternal affiliates in the International
Dockworkers Council and the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF)
to join the ILWU through international labor solidarity actions to 1)
demand that the fraudulent charges against the 9 longshoremen for ³inciting
to riot² be dropped and 2) send a message to Nordana Shipping
Lines and international shipping alliances that waterfront union-busting
will not go unchallenged. back
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