File spoon-archives/aut-op-sy.archive/aut-op-sy_1997/97-01-19.114, message 87


From: batcom-AT-poboxex.com
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 22:08:52 +0100
Subject: Re: Liverpool 2


At 17.37 14/01/97 GMT, you wrote:
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>please copy this to all relevant lists and interested individuals
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>January 10, 1997
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>To:
>Mr. Brian McWilliams
>President
>International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union
>1188 Franklin Street
>San Francisco, California 94109
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>Brother McWilliams:
>
>By decision of the Local #8 Executive Board on January 8, 1997, it
>was unanimously affirmed that Local #8 would support the sacked
>Liverpool Dock Workers request for a January 20th International Day
>of Solidarity in its completeness.
>
>Additionally, our Executive Board confirmed a policy of support for
>all dock workers in their struggles against port privatization and
>casualization, particularly for Japanese dock workers who face the
>current deregulation announced by the Transport Ministry of Japan,
>and Korean unions faced with a law adopted to facilitate laying off
>workers and replacing striking workers.
>
>We urge the International to support the Statement of Policy drafted
>by the International Executive Board on September 12 and 13, 1996,
>in full support of the sacked Liverpool Dock Workers and other dock
>workers whose jobs are jeopardized by incessant attacks from global
>shipping companies and extreme governmental anti-labor legislation.
>
>Now, more so than ever before, we should pledge, "An Injury To One
>Is An Injury To All".
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>Fraternally,
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>International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union, Local 8
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>Mark S. Dreith
>President
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>January 10, 1997
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>To: Bobby Morton, Shop Steward, Liverpool Dock Workers
>
>Kim Joon Sang,
>President, Korean Federation of Port and Transport Workers Union
>
>Akinobu Itoh, Assistant General Secretary, All Japan Dockworkers
>Union
>
>Brothers: By this letter, you are informed that I.L.W.U. Longshoremen
>and Marine Clerks in the Oregon Area Ports of Portland, Oregon;
>Longview, Washington; Vancouver, Washington; Coos Bay, Oregon;
>Astoria, Oregon; and Newport, Oregon are aware of the global
>onslaught being levied against dock workers around the world. In an
>effort to educate our memberships and the public, it is our
>intention to hold Stop Work Meetings on January 20, 1997, to
>coincide with independent activities by dockers in other countries.
>
>In Solidarity,
>
>Leal A. Sundet
>
>Oregon Area Secretary
>International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union
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