Longshore / Teamster Solidarity

Owners-Operators And Drivers Have Been
Exploited For Too Long

It's Time For A Change!

Clear the Air!

In the Spring of 1998 ILWU Local 19 hosted an event at our dispatch hall to show Longshore solidarity with the Teamsters. ILWU International President Brian McWilliams traveled to Seattle for this event and was a speaker along with Teamster 174 leader now State Senator Bob Hasegawa among others. Teamsters 174 and 206 brought their flagship trucks and afterwards Local 19 had a Barbeque for its members and guests.

Photos of the Event and BBQ

ILWU + Teamsters + ILA = Wall to Wall Union !!!!

We as longshore workers on both coasts and the gulf must show the truckers our support and stop the animosity between us.

The bosses want to keep us divided. Do not succumb to this! What we need is to get people to understand that truckers and longshore workers are not enemies. In fact we're natural allies. Solidarity begins with understanding.

The article below was taken from the Rank and File newsletter
"The Waterfront Worker" printed in the 1930's

Unity of Longshoremen, Seamen, and Teamsters

Past experience on the Frisco waterfront has shown that in any fight against the shipowners by the longshoremen, the stand the teamsters and seamen take play a deciding part.

If we succeed in winning support of the teamsters and seamen, the winning of any strike is a certainty. We must therefore, from the beginning reach the teamsters and seamen with our aims and connect these with their own problems.

Only by taking an interest in the problems and grievances of the teamsters and seamen and giving them our support whenever they need it, we can win them over to our side.

From the Waterfront Worker

March 1933

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