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Liverpool 10th . anniversary: Dockers gather to remember, rededicate page 3

ORAL HISTORY: Sam Kagel and the warehouse `March Inland' pages 6-7

Change to Win founds new labor federation pages 8

INSIDE Washington Report: Protecting the ILWU-PMA pension plan from Congress ... page How the other half percent die...... page 5 LEADership seminar focuses on democracy and participation ...... page 9 Columbia River District Council President Jeff Smith honored ...... page I I October 2005 Inside Line i'it: si ii : x'r's lii: l1lllt'1' IT'S IN THE AIR The old saw of environment versus jobs is dying hard, but its Remembering the past to better the future days are numbered. The idea that concern for not being killed by poi- By James Spinosa sons and pollution is a "job-killing" Minister John Howard and Patrick's Stevedoring moved against ILWU International President policy is almost a thing of the past. the Maritime Union of Australia. This time the international dockers More and more workers and their Time goes so fast in our hectic, modern world that taking the movement mobilized quickly and with multiple actions. unions are understanding this is a time to look back-even a short while-is hard to find. Seeing the The ILWU took action against the first scab-loaded ship from false choice, imposed by the owning patterns in those events and trying to figure out what they mean Australia, the Columbus Canada, when it came to the U.S. Again, class to make working people pay for our future is even harder. But what happens to the ILWU, our ILWU members, this time at the Port of Los Angeles, wouldn't for profit and privilege one way or members and their families, and what happens to the working cross a community picket line to work the cargo. The ship was the other. It's not acceptable that the only way to make a living means people of this country and around the world depends on our figur- sent back down under and reloaded by union labor. Other docker over the long run killing yourself, ing it out. unions around the world also responded immediately with solidar- your family and your community. In late September I and 15 other ILWU officers and rank and ity actions, and the combined effect backed down our enemies. It's been 35 years since the first filers flew to Liverpool, Great Britain. We went to participate in a When the employers and the state of South Carolina decided Earth Day sought to bring environ- commemoration of a dock worker struggle 10 years ago that has to test the strength of ILA Charleston Local 1422 in January 2000, mental consciousness to the gen- defined port labor relations around the world ever since (see story bringing in scab labor to do the local's work, the union longshore eral public. Most of today's workers workers set up a picket line. When a massive police force was grew up with that as an accepted page 3). sent in to bust heads and imprison workers like they used to do in background moral. We now all recy- As part of an anti-union campaign in Great Britain in the cle, try to avoid chemicals in our 1980s conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's govern- the Old South, the ILWU was there immediately to say "No!" And food and water and know we should ment abolished the country's National Dock Labour Scheme set we moved quickly to rally other unions, union federations and civil conserve water and energy even if up after WWII that nationalized the ports and guaranteed job secu- rights and community groups to the cause. we don't always do all we could. rity for union dockers. The ports were privatized and casual, non- Then the Spanish dockers of Coordinadora backed us up Manufacturing and the ever- union workers brought in to replace the union ones. The Liverpool with targeted pressure on the employer that had used scab labor increasing transportation industry dockers, some of the country's strongest and most militant union in Charleston. That pressure made the employer back down, and in the U.S. and Canada have been the right-wing state Attorney General spearheading the case saw coming under increasing scrutiny workers, resisted the buyouts and held onto their jobs. and criticism as their health affects But in September his political career van- accumulate and become statistical- 1995 a group of about ish, the Charleston Five ly obvious. Not surprisingly, where 80 dockers set up a won their freedom and pollution is at its worse-in the spontaneous picket At the gathering in the longshore workers California ports of Los Angeles, line when about 20 of of Charleston are stron- Long Beach and Oakland-is where Liverpool, leaders ger than ever. the movement against it is organiz- their co-workers were Then came the ing the strongest and loudest. fired and replaced Now the LA Harbor Commis- by non-union work- of docker unions ILWU's turn with our sion, with anti-pollution pioneer ers. The remaining 2002 negotiations. Sure S. David Freeman as its new presi- 400 dockers refused around the world we played that bargain- dent and ILWU Local 13 member to cross the line. An ing tough and shrewd. and Southern California District injury to one was an recommitted And we had big sup- Council President Joe Radisich, is port throughout the moving rapidly and radically to injury to all. American labor move- make Los Angeles the international For their efforts themselves to each model of a low-pollution port. They all the Liverpool dock- ment. But the employ- understand that jobs and economic ers were sacked and other and the inter- ers also knew the ILWU expansion need sustainable systems replaced by non-union belonged to internation- and bold action. They are looking ! workers. In response, national movement al dockworker associa- to quickly put in place new tech- the dockers, who had tions that were commit- nologies for low- or no-polluting a history of solidarity, ted to supporting us. equipment for docking vessels, yard to keep our ports That gave the employ- equipment, trucks and railroads. taking actions in sup- ers pause and saw us Whether the Commission's port of South Africa's union and safe. ambitious goals can be achieved, anti-apartheid move- through to our victory. especially in the time frame being ment, against Chile's In all their calcu- projected, remains to be seen. But military dictatorship and others, tried to organize an international lations, there was one it certainly won't happen with that movement in support of themselves this time. variable the employers could never quite account for. They could aggressive attitude, without the The ILWU understood the significance of this episode early never quite comprehend workers' empathy and compassion for approach that you can both clean on, understood that if long-unionized dockers in a major world each other, in a word-solidarity. up and grow the port. At the gathering in Liverpool, leaders of docker unions around Diesel pollution has been a com- port could be quickly replaced by casual workers laboring without munity issue for more than 15 years guaranteed wages and conditions, it could happen to any long- the world recommitted themselves to each other and the inter- in the poor, mainly African American, shore union. Our members contributed heavily to the financial national movement to keep our ports union and safe. We have a West Oakland neighborhood adja- support of the unemployed Liverpool dockers while they kept up common understanding of what we are up against, the globalized cent to the port. Asthma and lead their picketing and fighting to get their jobs back. forces seeking to eliminate strong, unionized port workers. And poisoning have been endemic in the In 1997 the Neptune Jade, a ship loaded by the employer that we are using that knowledge and new technologies to globally children there for years. fired the Liverpool dockers, sailed into the Port of Oakland. ILWU organize and protect ourselves. So a movement to change the The ILWU has been in the forefront of this international docker laws and culture of pollution has members refused to cross a community picket line and wouldn't arisen there, a coalition of envi- touch the cargo. The ship sailed on to Vancouver, B.C. where organizing. We belong to both the International Transport Workers' ronmental, health and community ILWU members there also refused to handle it. Japanese dockers Federation (ITF) and the International Dockworker Council (IDC), groups. The ILWU, many of whose gave it a similar greeting when it went there. The action buoyed solidifying our network of support. We are doing what we need to local members are from the area, the Liverpool dockers' hopes, but was not by itself enough to win do to be prepared for our 2008 negotiations. has added its authentic voice, lend- them back their jobs. The international dock workers movement But our employers are relentless. They have no intention of ing clout, legitimacy and moral wasn't united and coordinated enough at that time to beat back conceding our victories and trying to peacefully co-exist. righteousness to the cause. (see As we have seen with the recent attacks on our Chilean story page 4) this concerted attack on Liverpool. In the current political atmo- Still their loss exposed things all of us in the international brothers in the Port of Iquique, as we have seen in the latest sphere the movement toward dockers movement learned from and must continue to learn from, attempt to privatize the European Union countries' docks and the cleaner ports that have less public things about solidarity in action, and about its strategic, coordi- Dutch government's moves to eliminate union dockers' rights and health impacts is so necessary that nated and timely use. jobs, as we have seen in the continuing moves of the Australian it is nearly unstoppable. From the At the same time we learned the employers' strategy against government to outlaw unions, they are not letting up. And neither ILWU's top officers to its rank and file, that is understood and is us. So we were not surprised when in 1998 Australian Prime will we. increasingly becoming part of the union's policy and program. On-the-job injuries are not ILWU Titled Officers just traumas like broken bones or smashed hands. The steady poison- ing of pollution and chemical expo- Published monthly except for a combined July/August issue, for $5.00, $10 non-members, JAMES SPINOSA sures can take health and life too. a year by the ILWU, 1188 Franklin St., San Francisco, CA 94109-6898. The Dispatcher President And that business as usual will no welcomes letters, photos and other submissions to the above address. © ILWU, 2005. longer be allowed. ROBERT McELLRATH WESLEY FURTADO www.ilwu.org Vice President Vice President -Steve Stallone Steve Stallone Editor WWAWESTSV4 LABOR cOWA NICATIONS ASSOC. WILLIAM E. ADAMS Editor Tom Price Assistant Editor Secretary-Treasurer October 2005 ^^^^^^arcN^:^^ • 3 10th Anniversary of the Liverpool Dockers' sacking Dockers gather to commemorate Liverpool struggle By Jack Heyman To rousing applause Crow asked, 0 nee again dockworkers from "What's a `secondary' action? Surely around the world met in that's what the trade union move- Liverpool Sept. 23-24, this time ment is based on." not to co-ordinate solidarity actions One of the first speakers was for the Liverpool dockers, but to rec- ILWU International President Jim ognize those unions that participated Spinosa, who headed a delegation of in the worldwide actions and learn 15 members and officers. He remind- the lessons of that struggle in prepa- ed the audience that the Liverpool ration for future waterfront battles. dockers' struggle had inspired long- The Liverpool struggle began 10 shore workers to network and to years ago when young dockworkers organize solidarity actions: first, the spontaneously set up a picket line Neptune Jade in Oakland in support over substandard conditions and other of the Liverpool dockers, then the union members of the Transport and Columbus Canada in Los Angeles General Workers Union (T&G) hon- in support of the Australian wharf- ored their picket line, as they had ies, then actions in defense of the always done. All 500 dockers were Charleston longshoremen and most sacked by the employer, Mersey Docks recently the bloody police assault on and Harbour Company. dockworker union president Jorge Starting the weekend's main Silva Baron in Iquique, Chile. Spinosa event, Liverpool dock steward Jimmy noted what dockworkers have been Nolan opened by reminding partici- learning in this era of international pants that the gathering was not a capitalism. celebration because the dockworkers "We have to understand how the did not win their struggle, rather it employers have been able to mobilize was a commemoration of a struggle and get an upper hand in globaliza- that reignited militancy and under- tion," he said. "They project out 10, scored the necessity of international 15, 20 years. We working people are ILWU International President Jim Spinosa presents Liverpool dock steward workers' solidarity in today's global now doing the same thing, hooking Jimmy Nolan with a plaque from the ILWU recognizing the historic struggle of economy. In the heat of the Liverpool up with organizations and network- the Liverpool dockers. battle, maritime unions around the ing around the world in solidarity. world awakened to their call-from We are closing the world tighter and recounted how their contract strug- lesson from the Liverpool struggle: Europe to Japan, the United States, tighter so we can put together actions gle with Nordana Lines in 2000 and unions must organize properly, sup- Canada, Australia and New Zealand. much quicker than we did for the the subsequent Charleston 5 defense porting rank-and-file workers on the In the end the Liverpool dockers Liverpool situation." campaign was ultimately success- job, and organize globally." lost because they couldn't mobilize Receiving warm applause for his ful because of ILWU's internation- As an example, Crumlin cited the mass picketing on the Mersey docks open and honest appraisal, Frank al dockworker links, especially the ILWU's solidarity action during the to stop scabbing. That key element of Leys, Secretary of the ITF Dockers Coordinadora of Spain, that were MUA strike. The Columbus Canada solidarity was betrayed by the lack of Section, acknowledged that mistakes brought into play. These bonds were had been loaded by scabs in Australia support of their own union, the T & G, were made by his five million-strong forged at international conferences in and because of the labor-community the Trade Union Congress (Britain's organization during the Liverpool support of the Liverpool dockers. picket in the port of Los Angeles, the AFL-CIO) and British Prime Minister dispute. The T&G never supported In the tradition of Harry Bridges' ship was forced to return to Australia Tony Blair's so-called New Labour the strike, making it unofficial and good Aussie friend, Tas Bull, then- to be loaded by union wharfies before Party. thereby illegal. Since the T&G was an head of the waterfront workers union, it would be discharged on the U.S. Bob Crow, General Secretary of ITF affiliate, the ITF didn't support Paddy Crumlin, National Secretary West Coast. the Rail, Maritime and Transport the dockers either. of the Maritime Union of Australia He pointed out that dockworkers' Workers Union (RMT), whose union "Staying silent has never brought (MUA) spoke poignantly about the unions are being targeted by mari- was recently purged from the New the workers forward," Leys said. practical reality of the state of trade time employers and the governments Labour Party for its militancy and "Mistakes of the past will be remem- unions and of class struggle globally. because of their progressive stands, opposition to the war in Iraq, fired up bered in order to avoid repeating He praised the Liverpool dockwork- including dock protests against wars the crowd when he cited the illegal them." ers for their courageous struggle and like in Vietnam and Iraq. strike action by Gate Gourmet work- He exhorted all dockworkers to criticized Bill Morris, then-General "They are systematically taking ers, mainly South Asian women, ear- unify now in order to fight and defeat Secretary of the Transport and us on because we are a threat to what lier that month. Their action sparked the European Unions' Port Directive General Workers Union, for not sup- they are doing to our societies and an unofficial strike by baggage han- on "selfhandling" that would allow porting the strike. our global market, and I'm proud of dlers that grounded all flights of ships' crews to do longshore work in "The ITF should have played a that," Crumlin said. "We've identi- British Airways at Heathrow Airport. port. If implemented in Europe, this stronger role, no matter how difficult, fied the enemy and most of us here He condemned the banning of solidar- union-busting move will be repeated in making sure it was a win... not a have looked the devil in the eye and ity actions by Thatcher's anti-union in all the world's ports. loss," Crumlin said. He said now the we find if we are prepared to stick legislation and left intact by Blair's Ken Riley, president of ILA movement has "the experience to together and work together, the devil New Labour Party. Charleston longshore Local 1422, go forward" and "we've learned the always blinks." How international labor solidarity works-The Neptune Jade action

The activities commemorating in support of the Australian wharfies 10th anniversary of the start of and the action by the Spanish dockers the Liverpool dockers' struggle against the Nordana shipping line in began with the showing, appropri- support of the Charleston Five long- ately, of the video "Solidarity Has No shore workers. Borders: The Journey of the Neptune Since previous arbitrations re- Jade. " stricted the employer group, the "There were many actions in sup- Pacific Maritime Association (PMA), port of the Liverpool dockers during from retrieving its losses due to indus- the course of our two-and-a-half-year trial actions by the ILWU, it moved to struggle, but one stands out, the sue the individuals who were on the Neptune Jade," Liverpool dock stew- picket line for the financial hit its ard Terry Teague said when introduc- member companies claimed they took ing the video. because of the picket. The PMA sub- The Neptune Jade action will leave poenaed documents with information a high watermark on the pilings of about who they were from the ILWU labor history because of its boldness, International, The Dispatcher, and level of co-ordination and timing. Locals 10 and 34. Eventually PMA "The action came at just the hauled then-International President right time because after two years Brian McWilliams and Dispatcher in dispute the men's spirits were low editor Steve Stallone into court, seek- and this picked 'em right back up," ing to have them found in contempt ' Mickey Tighe, Liverpool dock stew- of court and thrown in jail if they con- ard, noted. tinued to refuse to turn snitch. The ILWU/IBU member and Neptune Jade picket captain and defendant Robert It enabled the stewards to keep ILWU won that case based on a ruling Irminger recounted the picket action and court case at the Liverpool com- the dockworkers together. Like a rip- that found that The Dispatcher, as a ple in the water, it reawakened work- newspaper, had a First Amendment memoration gathering. ers' awareness of the importance of right to gather information without international solidarity and became the interference or intrusion of the defendants, Local 10 activist Jack only those it allegedly had evidence the model for other solidarity actions government. Heyman and the Golden Gate chapter committed illegal acts on the picket that followed, like the 1998 boycott of In pre-trial motions the charges of the Labor Party, were thrown out line. But the court allowed PMA to the Columbus Canada in Los Angeles against two of the three only named and the court restricted PMA to suing continued on page 11 a • T DI%I'A H:HEIP October 2005 WASH I N1 T0N^ It E 1141 It"I" Protecting longshore pensions from Congress By Lindsay McLaughlin We had expected the Senate to the AFL-CIO say that's unfair. They er plan provisions make workers pay ILWU Legislative Director take up this issue several weeks ago, say plenty of companies have fluctu- the price for pension reform. In a let- Sometimes the interests of ILWU but Sen. Mike DeWine (R-OH) and ating credit ratings, even those that ter to the Senate, the AFL-CIO said members and their employers Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) put a are considered junk bond status, yet that unfair provisions include new coincide and it makes a world hold on the bill. At issue is a provision they keep their pensions. Secondly, if restrictions on benefit increases and of sense to work together. We seek to in the legislation that would force a company is struggling financially, as freezes on benefit accruals as well as work with employers on a national companies with low credit ratings indicated by its low credit score, why cuts in federal pension guarantees. sugar policy and against trade deals to beef up their pension contribu- penalize it by making it pay out cash "Not only are arbitrary automatic that give ILWU sugar jobs away. We tions. The sponsors of the legislation that it needs for operations? That limitations on pension accruals and seek to work with our employers on a say it's a form of assurance that if might push it into bankruptcy and benefit increases unfair to workers, national health care program that pre- companies go bankrupt, at least they make it eliminate its pension plan or they put rank-and-file workers at risk serves health benefits. On the issue of will have put some money in their freeze out new employees from par- of employer manipulation of their pension legislation, the ILWU and the pension funds for current and future ticipating in the pension. pension plan's funding," said Bill longshore employer group, the Pacific retirees. The requirement would kick Although the labor community is Samuel, Legislative Director of the Maritime Association, agreed to work in if a company's credit rating went pleased that the Senate bill attempts AFL-CIO. together to protect the pension agree- to junk bond status for two consecu- to take action regarding the crisis in The legislation includes provi- ment reached in 2002 embodied in the tive years. the airline pensions, there is great sions sought by airline unions and Coastwise contract. The agreement But the United Auto Workers and consternation that the single-employ- carriers for leniency regarding their to work together in Congress was pension plans. Offering greater leni- reached at the highest level in a dis- ency "would dig that hole deeper cussion between ILWU International and put more workers' pensions at President James Spinosa and PMA DITCHING DIRTY DIESEL risk," said Senate Finance Committee head James McKenna. Chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), In 2002, longshore negotiators whose committee shares jurisdic- and the PMA agreed to a pension tion over the legislation. "At some funding schedule that was approved point, Congress has to say enough is by the Pension Benefit Guaranty enough." Corporation (PBGC). The PBGC He suggested he would scuttle is a federal corporation created by the bill-along with its airline aid the Employee Retirement Income provisions sought by Delta Air Lines Security Act of 1974 and charged with and other carriers-rather than agree insuring workers' pensions. It cur- to more concessions. rently protects the pensions of 44.4 Delta badly wants a provision that million American workers and retir- would allow cash-strapped airlines to ees in 31,200 private single-employer spread pension plan payments over and multi-employer defined benefit many years. The current Senate ver- pension plans. sion has a 14-year provision, while The PBGC receives no funds from Delta wants 25. general tax revenues. Its operations The outcome of the airline aid are financed by insurance premiums issue could bear on whether Delta, set by Congress and paid by sponsors flying under Chapter 11 bankruptcy of defined benefit plans, investment John Showalter protection, tries to terminate its pen- income, assets from pension plans sion plans to save cash. Such a move trusteed by PBGC, and recoveries Longshore Local 10 President Trent Willis (at microphone) joined health, would shift responsibility for pension from the companies formerly respon- environmental and community groups Oct. 18 to publicize a state law prohibit- payments, up to certain limits, to the sible for the plans. ing diesel truck idling that has been on the books for over a year, but is regularly PBGC. In order to receive approval by ignored and violated. They held a press conference on the issue and ILWU A number of labor unions along the PBGC, the ILWU-PMA plan had members handed out more than 600 informational flyers to truckers at the Port with their employers are working to show that the covered work in the of Oakland. in a coalition to reform the pension agreement was stable, demonstrate Local 10's actions were part of a coordinated "Don't Sit Idle Day of laws. As flawed as the pension legis- that its funding schedule constitutes Action" by the Bay Area Ditching Dirty Diesel Collaborative, a group of 20 lation may be, unions involved in the an effective and sound method for organizations-including the American Lung Association, the United States National Coordinating Committee funding the benefits provided under Environmental Protection Agency, the California Department of Health for Multiemployer Plans (NCCMP) including the Teamsters, Iron the plan, and establish that if one Services, the Pacific Institute, Contra Costa Asthma Coalition, West Oakland or more of the employers withdraw Workers and other Building Trades Environmental Indicators Project and Bayview-Hunters Point Community from the plan, the funding schedule unions, have advocated legislation poses no risk to the PBGC. The 2002 Advocates- whose goal is to reduce diesel pollution regionally. that may in fact allow pension plan contract's pension plan passed all Particulate matter from diesel engine emissions, the fine black soot that trustees to make cuts to ancillary those tests. pours from truck smokestacks, has been shown by various medical experts benefits that have been promised. However, legislation being consid- to be carcinogenic and contributes to higher rates of childhood and adult Ancillary benefits are not the prima- ered by the House and Senate would asthma, as well as other medical conditions. In portside communities like ry promised benefits to retirees, but alter this funding schedule. The legis- West Oakland, residents face 90 times more diesel emissions than the state they may include disability and cer- lation would mandate certain funding average, while there are more than 350 asthma-related emergency room visits tain other subsidized early pensions. levels Congress deems safe for multi- per year associated with diesel pollution in the Bay Area. In their view, they would rather see employer plans similar to the ILWU- Willis was joined by Oakland City Councilmember Nancy Nadel, regional some cuts rather than have the plans fail. PMA plan. The 2002 agreement, with physicians and public health experts, truckers and representatives of various its increases in benefits, was designed We are living in an America where communities whose health has been most severely impacted by diesel emis- to dip below Congress' newly defined corporations continue to steal-legal- "safe" level, and most likely will next sions. Willis said his local was supporting the Day of Action's efforts in the Bay ly-from the American people and year. But in the future it would rise Area because he and his fellow longshore workers are part of the community from their employees. Last sum- above it based on the growth and and that they are exposed to the same risks from diesel emissions at work mer the courts agreed to let United profitability of the industry and the and home as other Alameda County residents. Willis also pointed out that Airlines renege on nearly $10 billion funding requirements built into the more state revenues must be devoted to building a cargo movement infra- of its pension promises to 134,000 of plan. But in the meantime the leg- structure that does not pollute the air and relies upon alternative fuels-like its workers. islation could require changes in the biodiesel or liquid natural gas-which produce far fewer emissions harmful to But this isn't just about United. 2002 contract that might complicate people's health than petroleum-based diesel. It's about corporate America break- the collective bargaining process. "We're spending billions monthly on the unjust war in Iraq, and this money ing its promises to workers. Many companies that are not shirking their Both the ILWU and the PMA could be going towards improvements in port infrastructure, highways, rail agreed that, given that the pension pension obligations by filing for bank- infrastructure and other projects that allow cargo to move freely without trucks plan was approved by the PBGC, we ruptcy are switching their defined must protect the sanctity of the col- idling in our neighborhoods," said Willis. "This money could also go towards benefit pension plans-which prom- lective bargaining agreement. Both retrofitting tractors and trucks to burn biodegradable fuel." ise a fixed monthly check-over to the union and the employer spoke Two days after the Day of Action, Bay Area Ditching Dirty Diesel riskier defined contribution plans like to representatives of Sen. Edward Collaborative members persuaded California Air Resources Board (CARB) the 401(k) that is dependent on the Kennedy (D-MA) and Sen. Mike Enzi officials at a public meeting in Sacramento to close a loophole in the state uncertainties of the stock market-or (R-WY) who will manage the leg- idling law that permits trucks with sleeper cabs to run their engines while driv- to no plan at all. islation on the Senate floor. They ers take naps. The CARB voted unanimously Oct. 20 for the new regulation ILWU longshore workers have a agreed that we made a strong case after Collaborative members illustrated the impacts of these vehicles' emis- solid plan, a great union and work for the preservation of our existing sion on community health while also showing how its passage would allows in an industry that is growing and profitable. If we are successful in get- ILWU-PMA funding plan, and agreed truckers to conserve 160 million gallons of fuel each year statewide. One tech- they will sponsor an amendment on ting the amendment that will exempt nological solution to overnight truck idling being installed at locations around the Senate floor that protects this the ILWU-PMA plan from these new plan. We hope that the House of California is called Truck Stop Electrification (TSE), which allows truckers to regulations, it will continue to serve Representatives will adopt the same plug in to an electric grid when they park. us well through our collective bar- or a similar provision. -John Showalter gaining process. October 2005 mi IIISIONKNE1 • 5 How the other half percent die by Jack Rasmus After more than four years of incessant tax cuts for the YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY, DAD. wealthy and corporations, THE ONLY CERTAIN George W. Bush and Co. are now THINGS ARE DEATH preparing to come back to the table AND TAXES. BUT IT LOOKS LIKE for another huge tax cut feast at the THERY'RE GOING TO REPEAL THE expense of workers and consumers in DEATH TAX. HEH, HEH. America. Congress has passed record tax cuts every year from 2001 through 2004, with more than 80 percent being distributed to the wealthiest taxpayers and corporations. Last April the House of Representatives passed-and now the Senate is con- sidering-another $1 trillion handout to the rich by repealing the Estate Tax, also called the "Death Tax." It is a tax heirs of the super rich pay when the head of the family's estate dies and leaves his or her property to them as beneficiaries. Even before the current proposed Estate Tax cut, the tax burden in the U.S. has been shifting dramatically for the last several decades-with workers paying relatively more and the wealthiest one percent of house- holds paying progressively less. In 2000, the year before Bush took office, the Estate Tax applied to only two percent, or 52,000, of the 2.5 million heads of households who died that year. And for that two percent, there was still a $1.35 million deduct- ible before a 55 percent tax rate on $11.6 trillion-80 percent of which the full picture. To cap off his tax cuts given to workers and consumers the estate applied. once again will accrue to the wealthi- legacy on behalf of corporate America between 2001-04 that were consid- Following Bush's 2001 Estate Tax est 20 percent of households and the in his second term, Bush wants to ered politically necessary at the time cut, less than one percent of wealthiest largest corporations. totally restructure the entire tax to ensure passage of Bush's first-term families remained subject to the tax. To give a sense of the magnitude of code. The campaign to do that kicked tax cuts for the wealthy. In addi- By 2005 the 52,000 eligible for the tax tion, the panel's report is expected had been reduced to only 13,700 out to launch a new assault on the few of the more than 2.6 million heads of Bush's tax cuts could pay for the alleged $3.4 remaining benefits in the federal tax households projected to die this year. code that working class households And even their deductible level has trillion shortfall in Social Security, fully resolve the have been able to take advantage been raised to $4 million and their tax of for many years, such as home rate has been reduced to 45 percent. real growing crisis in Medicare funding and mortgage interest, state and local tax Furthermore, under the current law, provide free prescriptions drugs for all Americans. deductions and deferral of taxes on by 2009 the deductible will rise to $7 health insurance premiums. million, and only 2,400 will be subject to the tax at that time. $11.6 trillion in tax cuts: that money off recently with the release Sept. A more detailed treatment of the Still, Bush and his wealthy back- would eliminate Bush's alleged $3.4 30, 2005 of the final report of Bush's `Great American Tax Shift' is con- ers have been pressing hard through- trillion shortfall in Social Security, appointed special Advisory Panel on tained in Jack Rasmus 'S just released out 2005 for immediate and perma- fully resolve the real growing crisis Tax Reform. Expectations are that book, THE WAR AT HOME: THE nent repeal of even today's watered- in Medicare funding and provide free the panel will recommend, and Bush CORPORATE OFFENSIVE FROM down Estate Tax. Even though that prescriptions drugs for all Americans and Congress will eventually pro- RONALD REAGAN TO GEORGE W. tax is scheduled to disappear alto- in need-not just partial payment for pose, not only further breaks for the BUSH, which can be purchased from gether after 2009, they are refusing drugs for those in retirement. wealthy and corporations, but also a the website, http://wwwkyklosproduc- to wait four more years. But even this $11.6 trillion is not scaling back of many of the token tax tions.com or soon on Amazon.com. Hurricane Katrina recently dealt a wild card into the table stakes Estate Tax-cut game, however. With what looks like $500 billion at min- Unionists examine pollution imum needed to rebuild the Gulf Coast, it may prove difficult (though not impossible) for pro-corporate/pro- health risks wealth interests to pass another $1 trillion tax cut for the wealthiest By Bill Orton cancer patients whose illnesses were industry claims is the lowest it can one percent of taxpayers at the same Maritime trades workers toiling allegedly contracted from workplace afford to meet, the rule for benzene time. amidst the belches of truck exposure to products like benzene. guarantees workplace cancer. So as a contingency Bush and the exhaust and ship emissions "I know the ILWU has seen large But employers have always pro-wealth interests in Congress have face a dramatically heightened risk of clusters of lung cancer and ulti- warned that health and safety regula- developed a fall back position nearly contracting leukemia and other forms mately, we're all front-line workers," tions will be the financial ruin of their as generous in the event a permanent of cancer, according to experts who Maritime Trades president Larry industries, and are only proven wrong repeal of the tax is not immediately spoke to a gathering of union officials Barragan said. when political power forces them to possible. Led by Senator Jon Kyle in Long Beach Sept. 23. Talk of toxic tort litigation and comply. Another benefit of good anti- (R-AZ), an alternate proposal in the "The ports of Long Beach and Los coalitions with environmental- pollution measures, Takiushi-Drury Senate at present is to raise the Angeles are the single largest source ists prompted intense debate, with noted, is that the upgrades in infra- Estate Tax's exemption immediately of harmful pollution in the South Barragan calling the entire topic structure required creates jobs. to $7 million (or higher) and immedi- Coast Air Quality District," said "highly controversial." But all agreed Metzger pointed out other ways ately reduce the 45 percent tax rate Richard Takiushi-Drury, an attorney that workers are the ones on the front the legal deck is stacked for business. to 15 percent. That would produce a and a former adviser to the Clinton line who suffer the greatest effects of "The whole workers comp system tax cut of more than $700 billion over Administration's EPA panel on envi- workplace pollution. was set up to protect employers," said the coming decade alone, with more ronmental justice. "Workers are really the canaries of Metzger, who pointed out that the to follow, for the wealthiest 0.3 per- Statistics show that 70 percent of occupational cancers," Metzger said. "A highest monetary compensation for a cent of households left subject to the all cancer risk in Harbor area is due lot of your members are going to devel- worker who dies on the job is capped tax. Even that $700 billion is prob- to diesel particulate matter, a situa- op cancer that will be caused by expo- at $150,000. ably an underestimation, since other tion now made worse by a ruling from sure to chemicals in the workplace, like With daily ship traffic represent- provisions in the legislation, as well a NAFTA panel that allows older, benzene. The rate of incidents is much ing the equivalent of one million car as cases before the courts at present, dirtier Mexican trucks into the U.S. less in the general population." trips, and older Mexican trucks spew- will render existing state-level Estate "Exposure in the Harbor is 10 Metzger told union leaders that ing benzene-laden exhaust into the Tax laws null and void as well. times or more that of the general benzene is so unsafe that studies have air, workers need to reach out to the Should Bush and corporate population," Takiushi-Drury said. shown the current federal OSHA stan- community and environmentalists to America succeed in repealing the "Occupational cancers are an epi- dard of one part per million is enough form what Takiushi-Drury referred Estate Tax and making Bush's 2001- demic, as four out of 10 workers will exposure to cause cancer. Scientific to as a "green-blue-brown coalition." 2005 tax cuts permanent, the non- contract cancer," said Raphael Metzger, evidence indicates a standard of one- "Where we live and work is the partisan Center on Budget and Policy a toxic tort litigation lawyer whose tenth part per million is the maximum most important environment to focus Priorities estimates the total long- clients have included leukemia and level a person could safely be exposed on," said Takiushi-Drury. term cuts will amount to no less than to. By settling on a standard that 6 • - Ifl%PATCHEIP October 2005 Representing the Union: Sam Kagel and

Introduction by Harvey Schwartz nized, but the employer wanted to go This is the second in a series of oral history arti- to the National Labor Relations Board cles featuring the legendary Sam Kagel, who retired (NLRB) for an election. Congress had as Coast Arbitrator for the longshore industry in recently passed the Wagner Act of 1935 2002 after 54 years on the job. In the 1930s, well that set up the board. Well, Pat said to before he began his storied career as an impartial me, "This guy wants a vote. Okay, we'll judge, Kagel was an economics graduate student give him a vote." and then a union advocate with the Pacific Coast I went to the plant with Pat. He asks Labor Bureau, a consulting firm that represented the guy, "You want a vote?" The guy organized workers in negotiations, mediations and answers, "Yes." Pat says, "Well, come arbitrations. on out to the gate." Off we go. Pat has Kagel was employed with the Labor Bureau the steward with him. He turns to the from 1932 to 1942. He left to serve in the War steward and says, "Tell the guys to come Manpower Commission when the U.S. entered out." They start coming out, and Pat tells World War II. After the war ended in 1945 he the employer, "Count 'em." That was the became an impartial arbitrator and attended law vote-the whole company! There must school. By the 1970s he was the nation's leading have been a hundred persons working figure in labor arbitration. there. They didn't stop work. They just During the great 1934 West Coast maritime walked out and walked right back in. The strike, Kagel was a close consultant to Harry employer had his "vote." He recognized Bridges; the longshore union and other waterfront the warehouse union quickly all right. worker groups. His testimony about that phase of At most other places where the his seven decades in labor relations was the focus of people were organized shortly after the last month's oral history article. 1934 strike, the employer either knew it This month the spotlight is on Kagel's associa- and accepted it or, once in a while, asked Employer and union negotiating committees, 1938 San Francisco we tion with the warehouse union in the five years fol- for a card count. There was an "atmo- Howell and B.R. Funsten, (for the union) Henry Melnikow, Harry Brid( lowing the 1934 strike. Those were the days of the sphere" for union organizing in those employers) Marshall Madison, James Reed, Edwin Pillsbury, "Navy" I longshore union's triumphant organizing drive into days. People were eager to sign up and the San Francisco Bay Area warehouse industry many employers got it. But this guy was Once a place was organized the employer would that became known as "the march inland." As a so adamant that it had to be a formal vote under sit down and negotiate seriously or we'd have a representative of the longshore union's new ware- the Wagner Act that Pat got a little pissed. So he strike. In those days we had a lot of strikes going house local, and several other Northern California said, "I'll really give him a vote." all the time, and not only in the warehouse indus- unions as well, Kagel participated in the events of The public warehouses was the first employer try. There were strikes on at Safeway, department that period on a daily basis. group that we sat down to negotiate with. Wes stores, hotels. During the whole period between '34 In 1999 I was commissioned by the ILWU Coast Howell headed a key company in that group and he and 1937, '38, there was hardly a time when there Labor Relations Committee to interview Kagel. represented the employers. It had taken us a long weren't four, five or six strikes going on. All of this Those 1999 discussions provided the basis for time to get an agreement to meet. It was a real union activity, of course, was inspired by the long- this article. I would also like to acknowledge touchy deal. I can still see Wes Howell sitting on shoremen winning the 1934 strike. That victory Jennie Kogak, J. E. Rieber and San Francisco one side of the room across from Pat, myself and gave backbone to a lot of people to organize. State University Labor Archives Director Susan the people from the union. Well, there had been a For example, how come the department store Sherwood for their help. Front page portrait: cour- movement within the warehouse local at the time clerks got organized? Well, around 1937 the long- tesy San Francisco History Center, San Francisco that there should be an audience of workers. So we shore union's new warehouse local went on strike Public Library. had an audience about two or three rows back. at Woolworth's dime store in San Francisco. One I was the economics guy with the proposals. of the clerks working there was a young woman SAM KAGEL Therefore I started the meeting. All of a sudden one named Marion Brown, later known by her married guy in the audience stands up. He says he wants to name as Marion Sills, labor leader. She was talking Edited by Harvey Schwartz, say something. Everything stops. He starts, "My to the warehousemen who were on strike. From Curator, ILWU Oral History Collection wife passes the Roos Brothers clothing store on her that she got an idea of what the hell a union was n the 1930s there were lots of warehouses in way to work. She sees all the wonderful clothes in all about. Ultimately that led her to call a lot of San Francisco. The city was a big distributing the window and she believes we should have enough people working in the big Emporium store and they J center. You had public warehouses and ware- money to buy them." The place was stunned 'cause arranged to have meetings at night. Bingo! You've houses in grocery, drug, hardware and coffee. All this guy was not part of the negotiating committee got an organization going. of them were part of the waterfront, really. Right and he was not an officer. I was involved in an important labor dispute after the 1934 strike most were still unorganized. Finally the guy sat down. With that, Wes at the Santa Cruz Fruit Packing Company in 1935. But soon there was a conscious decision to move Howell said, "I don't think we should continue with The wage rates at Santa Cruz Packing were around off the 'front and on to the warehouses. And for this meeting." It took another four or five weeks 35, 45 cents an hour with no other conditions. With good strategic reason. They were easy pickings, too, to get back into negotiations. Thereafter, we didn't the conditions so poor at Santa Cruz, getting the because they were paying 45, 55, 65 cents an hour have an audience. We had a negotiating commit- people organized into the warehouse union was with hardly any other conditions. Those wages tee that represented the warehouse persons in a easy. I didn't speak to the people directly or sign were low even for the Great Depression. particular plant and any officers of the union who them up, but I helped the organizers with the plan- Eugene Paton was one of the San Francisco wanted to be present. Pat and I would keep away ning. warehouse organizers. He was an extraordinary from guys who were constantly making what I call Santa Cruz was an outfit that canned food and guy. I remember how Pat got recognition at this one "speech 84b,"too. We had a job to do. The job was to sent it around the world. Some of the workers there warehouse that specialized in packing fancy Italian organize and to get a contract that was acceptable came to the union and asked to be organized. A lot olives and stuff like that. Pat had the workers orga- to the persons affected by it, period. of people who were working in various places did that after 1934. The demand was made upon Santa Cruz to enter into collective bargaining. In this case we wanted to get the company certified under the new Wagner Act. A lawyer named Paul St. Sure represented Santa Cruz. He was the guy who headed the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) in the 1950s and negotiated the famous longshore Mechanization and Modernization Agreement (M&M) of 1960 with Harry Bridges and the ILWU. Paul took the position that Santa Cruz was not covered by the Wagner Act because less than 50 per- cent of its product went into interstate commerce. Since the constitutionality of the act was based on its covering industries that affected interstate commerce, St. Sure thought he had a workable argument. I was not a lawyer yet, but the regional NLRB took the position I took and the union took, that the act still applied ILWU ORAL since interstate commerce was affected. Volum The case went through the court of appeals. We won. A couple of years had Represent passed by then. I'd been dealing with Paul St. Sure on many cases involving Sam K many unions. He was a straight-on guy. We had Warehouse ` a great relationship and Local 6 President Eugene Paton trying to conduct union business during a labor dispute at Euclid Candy rarely needed to go to 19ti Company in San Francisco just after the warehouse "march inland." arbitration. Of course, October 2005 mJ1N1l0 FCHEu! • 7 he Warehouse "March Inland," 1934- 1939

discharge or a suspension. Many of the covered by Local 6 contracts. employers could ultimately see that, The contracts in different groups in the indus- 'cause it made sense. That's how we try-the grocery houses, coffee houses, and so got arbitration clauses written into so forth-had different termination dates. We used to many of the early contracts. go from one group of employers to the next trying As is generally known, the ship to get a better deal in each set of negotiations. This owners tried unsuccessfully to bribe was called "whipsawing." The employers finally Harry during the 1934 strike. I even decided they wanted one "master contract" in the cited a Matson Navigation Company whole industry to stop the whipsaw. source on this in a memoir I wrote. So the employers as a whole locked out all the Still, in my experience there were Local 6 workers in the city by moving a boxcar actually very few underhanded efforts containing non-union products from warehouse to to end labor disputes in those early warehouse. That car became famous around town days, or even after. Our area of the as "the hot boxcar." Local 6's members wouldn't country was always pretty clean. work its contents. The whole industry remained One time, though, I was in a San down for two months with the local insisting it Francisco saloon called The Streets would not give up the whipsaw or accept a master of Paris. This was 1937, '38. I was contract. That lockout was front page news for waiting to meet with a guy who was weeks in San Francisco. coming from a union meeting. It was I used to discuss the situation daily with Paton, after ten o'clock at night and there who was now president of Local 6. We always got was hardly anybody in the place. I was the early editions of the San Francisco Chronicle sitting there reading the newspaper to read Paul C. Smith's blasts at us. Smith was when three guys came in. One was a the editor of the newspaper. He had not been an house lockout. From left to right: (for the employers) Adrien Falk, Wes little short stubby guy. The other two unreasonable, anti-union guy before. Finally we s, Sam Kagel, Eugene Paton, Donald Maguire and Bob Moore. (for the were great big monsters. They walked decided we would write him a letter asking him to straight up to me. be mediator. He accepted. I Ingram. courtesy Sam Kagel I looked at these two big guys, who Paton and I knew that when we got into when it came to the Santa Cruz case, Paul-being were what we called "goons" in those mediation we would end up with a master con- an attorney-went through all of the steps right up years. They were dressed in long black overcoats tract. There was no way we were going to get the to the U.S. Supreme Court. called "bennies." I said, "What can I do for you?" employers to agree to permit us to whipsaw. But In 1938 St. Sure went back to Washington, The short guy answered, "I'm here to settle the we didn't sit around and say, "Hey, they won." You D.C., to argue before the high court. The attorneys strike with Owens Illinois Glass." At the time I was don't do that. You suddenly come to the realization for the NLRB were there. When Paul came back representing the warehouse union in negotiations that, "Are we going to stay out another 60 days from Washington he called me up. He said, "I don't with that firm. I came back, "I have no authority to with nothing happening and we've got our people think I'm going to make it." I asked, "Why do you settle that strike. What is your interest in it?" not working?" say that?" He said, "Because of some of the ques- He said, "They used to supply me with bottles Interestingly, Harry thought we should take tions these people asked me." I said, "Well, con- during Prohibition." I asked, "What's your name?" the master contract all along. He sided with, for gratulations, I'm glad to hear that." He said, "Waxie Gordon." So I'm looking at this guy christsake, Adrien Falk, one of the main employers. Paul was right. The majority of the Supreme who I now realize is a notorious Chicago gangster. We had a public meeting with the world there and Court justices held that Santa Cruz's business did I didn't know what the hell was going to happen. both of them were arguing for the master contract. affect interstate commerce. Thereafter the Santa I offered, "Do you want me to arrange a meeting We used to call them, in fun, "the Bridges/Falk Cruz judgment was considered, in legal language, with the union?" No, he didn't. "Well," I said, "I'll Axis" after the Hitler/Mussolini Axis. Anyway, a "leading case," because it decided an important be in my office tomorrow if there's anything you from the beginning Harry said, "You guys are going element of the statute in question. One result want." And they left. to have to agree to a master contract." And so we was that it widened the overall application of the I immediately telephoned Jack Shelly, then the did. We also got some decent concessions in the Wagner Act. secretary of the San Francisco Labor Council. He arbitration proceedings that settled the details of In the early organizing years, 1935, '36, '37, said, "I'll take care of it." He called the chief of the master contract in 1939. there were two basic issues that always came up. police, whose men visited Gordon at the St. Francis Around this time the ILWU boycotted the This was all part of the "march inland," when Hotel, where he was staying. They asked him what export of scrap iron to Fascist Japan to protest everybody was organizing-hotel workers, grocery he was doing in town. He said he was there to that country's invasion of China. I participated in clerks-not just our warehousemen. One issue introduce a new cleaning process. the picket lines down on the waterfront. My point was that the unions wanted to have the right to The police then saw that he went out to the here is that this boycott was not related to negotia- arbitrate discharge cases. The employers wouldn't airport. They put him on a plane headed East. He tions or contracts. The ILWU was always socially agree to that. The other issue was the unions want- indicated he was going to stop off at Reno, so they minded, and not just the ILWU. ing to have the closed shop, which was legal in alerted the Reno cops, who wouldn't permit him to The union movement never said, "All we're those years. A closed shop meant that only union get off the plane. So off he went. That was the end interested in is how much money we're getting members could be employed in a plant. of my experience with the gangster Waxie Gordon. today," because labor by its very history was part One day while there was a grocery strike going A little later, in August 1938, there was a big of a social movement. It always asked, "Who the on, "Navy" Bill Ingram called me up. Ingram was industry-wide lockout of all the Local 6 ILWU hell got schools? The eight-hour day? The five-day the football coach at U.C. Berkeley who had his warehouse employees in San Francisco. By then the week? Who was concerned about children work- players scab on the longshoremen during the 1934 West Coast longshore and warehouse workers had ing?" Despite all the contracts, that's what it was strike. He'd been dumped as coach and had been left the International Longshoremen's Association all about. It was about concern for all people. That's appointed head of labor relations for Safeway. He (ILA), which they were affiliated with from 1934- why the ILWU boycotted the scrap iron and I was wanted to know what this closed shop thing was all 1937, and formed their own new union, the ILWU. on the picket lines, protesting what the Japanese about. Obviously, his background was not in labor Most of the city's 6,000 warehouse people were now were doing to the Chinese. relations! I knew Ingram didn't care about the union's point of view. You think he'd be happy with the idea that the union wanted to be secure so it could beat the ass off the employers every year? Of course not. So I told him a union was like his business. You had to have a certain amount of money to survive. You've got rent, secretaries and so forth. He listens and listens. Then he says, "I can understand that." Well, that grocery strike finally ended and we got the closed shop. During a lot of other strikes, including ware- house ones, I would make speech 84b until I was blue in the negotiations. There would be no prog- ress. Eventually I would say, "Listen, why don't you call up Bill Ingram and discuss it with him?" I can tell you now that Bill Ingram settled more STORY PROJECT closed shop provisions for the unions than we XI, Part II ever got by economic strength. About the dis- zg the Union: charge deal, well, we finally got it through pel and the the employers' heads that if you don't have some kind of internal larch Inland," machinery to settle these beefs, the unions The "hot boxcar" during the 1938 San Francisco warehouse lockout . The rail car was loaded with scab 1-1939 would have to strike products and moved from plant to plant by order of the city's employers, who used the ploy to lock out every time there was a the union's members. s ' PPISIDUC HFJ! October 2005 Change to Win establishes new union federation By Mark Gruenberg PAI Staff Writer ST. LOUIS (PAI)-Declaring they want to devote three-fourths of their new group's money to organizing, leaders and representatives of seven unions formally established the Change to Win federation Sept. 27 in St. Louis. The federation's unions have more than 6 million members. They are the Service Employees, Teamsters, United Food and Commercial Workers, the Laborers, the Carpenters, UNITE HERE and the Farm Workers. Of those, all but the Laborers-who will leave soon-and the United Farm Workers, are former member unions of the AFL-CIO. The new group, to be headquar- tered in Washington, named SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger as its chair and Edgar Romney, Executive Vice President of UNITE HERE, as its Secretary-Treasurer. SEIU's organizing director, Tom Woodruff, becomes Change to Win's organiz- ing director-a key post-and Greg Tarpanian moves from the New York- based Labor Research Association to become Change to Win's full-time executive director. Burger, who will chair the month- ly meetings of the new group's 10-per- son board and serve as its public face, The Change to Win leadership: (left to right) Jim Hoffa, General President, International Brotherhood of Teamsters; will keep her SEIU post. Woodruff will Edgar Romney, Secretary-Treasurer of the CTW Federation; Andy Stern, SEIU President; Joe Hansen, UFCW head its Strategic Organizing Center. President; Anna Burger, Chair of CTW Federation; Terry O'Sullivan, LIUNA General President; Arturo Rodriguez, United The center "will lead federation-wide Farm Workers President; Geralyn Lutty, UFCW International Vice President. coordinated growth initiatives, lever- aging the collective resources of its they're going to send to Change to and other action. said that includes $200 million in so- affiliates for growth" and "integrate Win. • Creating coordinating commit- called "Taft-Hartley" pension funds their organizing plans," a Change to And they stated that their core tees for organizing and bargaining in the construction industry, and $2.6 Win statement said. industries-hotels, hospitals, restau- in the specific core industries. The billion in public employee pensions. At its first-ever convention, rants, textile, construction, transpor- panels would develop joint plans and • Making the areas of Mississippi, almost 500 delegates from the unions tation and others-have 50 million enforce provisions to ban individual Louisiana and Alabama devastated ratified the organization's constitu- workers, but only 6 million are union- unions from reaching contracts that by Hurricane Katrina a test case for tion and its goals and program by ists. Workers they will pursue hold undercut their colleagues ' efforts. a new union role, not just immediate voice votes. Leaders said organizing jobs that cannot be outsourced or • Nationwide organizing of relief, but training area workers to the unorganized will be Change to moved overseas, they added. national targets , including DHL, Wal- rebuild communities. "It's an oppor- Win's overriding goal. "We commit ourselves to the 50 Mart, Cintas, Smithfield, FedEx and tunity to present ourselves in the Teamsters President James Hoffa million unorganized workers and to possibly the Beverly Nursing Home South," where the labor movement declared Change to Win would spend rebuild the labor movement," Burger chain. The Change to Win 10-person is weak and even unionists under $750 million on organizing. The said. council-each union ' s president plus national contracts, such as IBT mas- Teamsters, on the international level Many of those jobs are held by an additional member each, for diver- ter freight agreements, have lower alone, spend $40-$45 million and will minority group members, immi- sity, from SEIU, the Teamsters and wages, Hoffa said. add $5 million next year, Hoffa said. grants or both, and the convention UFCW-will set more targets and • Using the three-fourths of the UNITE HERE Co-President Bruce showcased statements from African- flesh out plans at a Nov 1 meeting in $16 million that Change to Win will Raynor said his union spends 55 per- American and Latino/Latina work- Washington, D.C. collect in per-capita assessments from cent of its national-level budget-$35 ers. Change to Win also demands full • Using actions, including strikes, member unions for planning and million-on organizing. legalization of immigrants. in other cities or metro areas to sup- implementing joint organizing. But there is more, or maybe less, Key concepts of Change to Win's port demands for recognition and Change to Win leaders confirmed to that figure than meets the eye. program include: contracts in one area. contacts with other unions about join- That's because the figure includes • Concentrating organizing in • Downgrading political action to ing their new federation, but said they not just what the new federation each union's "core industries," such link endorsements to organizing, and are not actively soliciting them. A and its member international unions as transportation for the Teamsters, endorsing only politicians who openly prime target mentioned was the unaf- spend on organizing, but what their according to Hoffa. Change to Win, support the right to organize-even filiated 2.7-million-member National locals, councils and affiliates spend, which Burger and the union presi- if those pols oppose labor on other Education Association, the nation's too. dents emphasize would be a small, issues. largest union. Asked specifically if And spending next year will coordinating body, would mediate and • Using of labor's financial re- NEA would be asked to join, SEIU increase only slightly, using the funds decide conflicts. sources, such as money in health, President Andrew Stern said no. those unions would have otherwise • Multi-union organizing cam- welfare and pension funds , to fur- "There are now two federations," sent to the AFL-CIO in dues-minus paigns, and multi-union support for ther union organizing goals. Laborers Stern said. "The question is now that the 25 cents per member per year each other's organizing drives, strikes Union President Terry O'Sullivan we changed, can we win?" Schwarzenegger vetoes trucker bill By Tom Price Teamsters' Union and the opposition own only one tractor and drive under and the exploitation of port truckers. Port truckers lost a round in their of the Calif. Trucking Assn. agreements with maritime shippers. But he didn't sound like the action efforts to gain a voice on the "It's typical Schwarzenegger-if Sen. Dunn's reasoning is that the hero in his veto. job when California Governor anyone in the business community truckers are kept unfairly poor and "The litigious firestorm this bill Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill objects to legislation, he's going to cannot maintain their rigs. Therefore would assuredly ignite is counter- that would have recognized their col- veto it," said Chuck Mack, Director the citizens suffer the pollution and productive to the cooperative work lective bargaining rights. of the Teamsters' Port Division. "If pay the medical bills for underpaid that must be accomplished to cap- Senate Bill 848, introduced it has anything to do with labor and workers. While the National Labor ture the economic potential afforded Feb. 25 by Sen. Joseph Dunn (D- there's an objection-it's an auto- Relations Act bans unionization by by growth in international trade," Garden Grove), would have acknowl- matic veto." "independent contractors," it does Schwarzenegger's veto message read. edged what is obvious to everyone The steamship companies that not preempt California from passing Mack, who is also Secretary- on the waterfront-that port truck- contract with the truckers have anti- labor laws to protect its environment Treasurer of Teamsters Local 70 and a ers are workers who should be able trust immunity and are allowed to and its workers, according to the bill. Teamster International Vice President, to combine together and bargain fix shipping rates among themselves. The bill's supporters argued that promised more action next year. with their employers. But in a selec- These immunities allow the compa- since truckers provide their own "This veto only reinforces what tive interpretation of states' rights, nies "to engage in collective activities tractors but in every other way use we already know about this guy-he's Schwarzenegger claimed the bill to increase their market clout, and the employers' facilities, they are no in the pocket of big business and he would violate federal anti-trust laws these activities decrease the ability of more independent than mechanics does their bidding to the detriment and the state didn't need to get into port owner-operator drivers to nego- who bring their own tools to work. of workers, in this case, workers who a fight over it. The bill passed the tiate for higher rates," the bill reads. Schwarzenegger could have are just absolutely exploited," Mack Senate 24-14 and the Assembly 47- Anti-trust laws deny port truckers looked like a fighter for the underdog said. "We'll re-introduce the bill, we'll 31. Schwarzenegger vetoed it Sept. the same privileges. if California took the lead and tried to get it passed and, when we get a new 29. The bill had the backing of the The bill would cover drivers who solve the problems of port congestion governor, we will get it signed." October 2005 Zi uIISPP I'CHEH • 9 LEAD seminar focuses on democracy and participation

Participants exchange insights and experiences about challenges of working constructively with different kinds of personalities in their union and commu- Northern California members discuss strategy : Cesar Garibay and Jose Nunez nity (foreground, back to camera, Tony Flaherty [Local 7] and Rachel Lohse (Local 6), Bonnie Houston (seated) and Byron Moore (Local 10), and Jack [Local 30}; left to right Marc Cuevas [Local 54], Karen Bonkoski [Local 5], Wyatt, Sr., Local 17. Angel Blanco [Local 13], Jerry LeMaster [Alaska Longshore Division]).

LWU members from all sections we've had come out for this type of democratic discussion and debate "This kind of brainstorming I of the union gathered in Palm training," said ILWU International that swirled around negotiation of always helps us," said Olney. "We Springs, California, last month to Secretary-Treasurer Willie Adams. the historic longshore agreement in get new leads for organizing, which participate in the latest Leadership The 85 participants, including 23 1960 known as the Modernization and strengthens the entire union in every Education and Development (LEAD) women, came from all industries and Mechanization Agreement. Ah Quon way imaginable." institute. regions under the union's jurisdiction McElrath, retired Local 142 social Many of the conference materials "This is the most diverse and to spend the week of Sept. 19-23 at the worker, evoked the threats posed to will soon be available on the member representative group of participants Riviera Resort learning about "the civil liberties by anti-communism in section of the ILWU website (www. Tools and Traditions of Democracy" the 1950s and anti-terrorism today. ilwu.org). in the ILWU-which focused on On Thursday, the participants rose to -Gene Vrana, ILWU Director how to run efficient, productive, their feet in response to a stirring per- of Educational Services and democratic membership meet- formance by Local 23 member Zeek -Photos by Frank Wilder ILWU clerical staff ings. Special attention was also Green about the plight of workers and paid to building personal skills in the promise of solidarity. achieving effective decision-making A research team from the and maximum member participa- University of Washington's Harry tion in the life of the union. Bridges Center for Labor Studies "What we are about in the under the leadership of Professor ILWU," said International Presi- David Olson reported on trends dent Jim Spinosa in his opening in member participation in the remarks, "is democracy-rank and ILWU. The team, including gradu- file democracy from the bottom up ate students Jon Agnone, Julianna in the ILWU and throughout orga- Rigg, and Ali Waggener Boyd, also nized labor. From real democracy engaged the LEAD participants in we build real unity. " a dynamic discussion about the The week-long program began core values of the ILWU to help the with an overview by Professor team develop a survey among new Elaine Bernard of the Harvard members about how union mem- University Trade Union Program bership affects attitudes and opin- about the importance of union ions about a variety of workplace democracy to members-and about and union issues. how essential unions are in fighting The nuts and bolts of financial for and defending democracy for all administration and local autonomy workers. were laid out by a panel of ware- Joel Schaffer and Rick Oglesby house Local 17 Secretary-Treasurer of the Federal Mediation and Jack Wyatt Sr., IBU National Conciliation Service led a day-long Secretary-Treasurer Terri Mast workshop on how ILWTJ members and ILWU Research Director Russ can work better together in commit- Bargmann. What the participants tees and meetings, and why rules learned about democracy and meet- are necessary in a democracy. Max ings and finances were put to the Vekich, member of clerks Local 52 test in a lively afternoon of mock and the International Executive membership meetings convened to Board, presided over a lively ses- deal with declining member par- sion on Robert's Rules of Order and ticipation. University of Washington Professor other ILWU meeting procedures. ILWU Vice Presidents Bob David Olson delivers main presentation Skill-building sessions took McEllrath and Wesley Furtado par- about trends in member participation in place between several presenta- ticipated throughout the week and, along with Coast Committeeman the ILWU as members of his research tions about ILWU principles and traditions. Pensioner and former Joe Wenzl, helped facilitate Friday's team from the UW Harry Bridges Center Coast Committeeman Bill Ward and brainstorming session on new for Labor Studies look on (Ali Boyd, Ian Ruskin of the Harry Bridges opportunities for organizing led by Emilei Noceti, Local 63 Marine Clerks, Julianna Rigg,; not shown: Jon Agnone). Project painted a picture of the Organizing Director Peter Olney. leads group problem-solving exercise.

International Vice Presidents Bob McEllrath (standing, left) and Wesley Talking about organizing in the Puget Sound area: Lance Anderson (Local 23 Furtado (standing, right) discuss organizing in Hawaii with 142 members Tacoma), Chuck Cepeda (Local 19 Seattle), IBU national Secretary-Treasurer Dillon Hullinger, Stephen Castro, Abel Kahoohanohano and Patrick DeCosta Terri Mast, Jeff Moore (Local 98 Seattle), Coast Committeeman (Northwest) (Back to camera). Joe Wenzl. 10 • T IIISI'A1'CHEH October 2005 PENSION SECURITY - SOCIAL SECURITY BUILDING THE COAST COMMUNICATIONS TEAM PORT SECURITY - LONGSHORE COMMUNICATIONS SEMINAR IN JANUARY Your Union's Security During our Longshore Division's 2002 contract negotiations, the media became a key factor in influencing the public opinion of the community, labor, business interests and politicians. What people said about our negotiations impacted the contract bargaining process and how the politicians reacted to our contract struggle. Based on this reality, the Coast Committee, with recom- mendation from the Coast Public Relations Committee and approval from the Longshore Division Caucus, has committed to improving our communications program. A fundamental and critical aspect of this program is to form an ILWU Coast communications team that, under the direction of the local officers and Coast Committee, assists the ILWU in promoting its messages during the 2008 contract bargaining sessions and beyond. On Monday, January 23 through Friday, January 27, 2005, the ILWU Coast Committee, in conjunction with the Coast Public Relations Committee, will con- duct a Communications seminar in Palm Springs, California at the Riviera Hotel. This seminar will include as instructors labor communication professionals with expertise in areas such as public speaking (press conferences, community meetings, outreach), print media (writing flyers, newsletters, press releases), audio/visual presentations (video and photographic), and e-activism (using e-mail and the internet to network, mobilize, and disseminate information). APPLICATION PROCESS The Coast Committee is looking for registered ILWU members who are committed to promoting the message of the ILWU and who will make a three- year commitment to the ILWU Coast Communications team. Registered rank- and-file longshore members interested in becoming part of the team can pick up applications from their local officers. Applicants must turn in one copy to their local president and send one copy separately to: The ILWU Coast The ILWU International officers would like to thank all the mem- Committee, 1188 Franklin Street , 4th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94109. bers who donated their time, energy and money to our 2004 politi- Application deadline: November 21. 2005. cal campaign. We are proud of the stand the ILWU made in oppo- SELECTION PROCESS sition to the Bush administration. Although we did not prevail then, With the advice of local officers and the Coast Public Relations Committee, events of the last year have proven us right and polls show that the the Coast Committee will select members to participate in the seminar for eligi- majority of Americans now agree with our position. All those who bility on the ILWU Coast Communications team (requests for additional member participation will be considered based on space availability). contributed to our Political Action Fund in 2004 will be receiving a commemorative pin and window decal (pictured above) acknowl- ROOM ACCOMMODATIONS , TRAVEL, PER DIEM edging their participation. The Coast Committee will provide room accommodations, reimbursement for travel and per diem. Locals may choose to pay wages at their own discretion. Now we are gearing up for the 2006 election cycle. The Republicans are vulnerable as the Iraq War drags on with continu- ing carnage and costs and no end in site, as Bush strategist Karl Rove appears to be facing indictments, and as Republican Senate leader Bill Frist and Republican House Majority Leader Rep. Tom PLEASE POST DeLay are facing criminal charges. 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After Bay Area longshore of the specter of labor solidarity. locals shut down the Port of Oakland At the Longshore Caucus held after July 22, rallied in front of the PMA's the ILWU Convention in Portland in Oakland office and marched 1,000 2000, attorney Rob Remar, who was strong to the courthouse demand- instrumental in helping to pilot the ing the charges be dropped, and the Neptune Jade campaign through legal Coast Committee threatening coast- channels, explained that we live in wise action if PMA carried out the a country with repressive anti-labor prosecution of Irminger, the employ- legislation like the Taft-Hartley Act ers gave in. which makes solidarity actions, or as The Labor Video Project produced employers say, "secondary boycotts," the video. Following the video show- difficult for unions to organize. ing, Steve Zeltzer of the LVP, chaired "The significance of the Neptune the event with Irminger and Heyman Jade action lay in the fact that the speaking, followed by discussion. ILWU was able to implement its policy Irminger chronicled how the of support for their Liverpool brothers Neptune Jade sailed into the port while defending itself against legal of Oakland Sept. 28, 1997 from attacks," he said. Thamesport, England, a port operated At the Liverpool gathering by Mersey Docks and Harbor Company Irminger pointed out how the Neptune which had sacked the 500 Liverpool Jade action influenced later events. dockers. It was the second anniversary "It was the Neptune Jade action of the strike. Labor and community which strengthened the links between activists set up a picket line in soli- Bay Area organized labor and com- darity with the Liverpool dockers. At munity groups, preceding and laying this 10th anniversary commemoration the basis for a global justice move- As PMA went on a witch hunt, searching for pickets to sue, supporters of the Liverpool, steward Terry Teague pre- ment here," he said. Liverpool dockers around the world wore buttons and stickers with this graph- sented Irminger with a plaque for his In 1999, he pointed out, ILWU ic and slogan in solidarity. dedication to the struggle. and other trade unionists marched to parrying with right-wing politicians Although the port was not shut down, For three-and-a-half days long- with young protesters demonstrat- in the Australian press. the case against the police, ILWU shore workers refused to cross the ing against the WTO in Seattle. And Heyman said when anti-war Local 10 v City of Oakland, is sched- picket line, despite a court injunction again, in 2001, global justice activists activists demonstrated in the Port of uled for court in January. ordering them to do so. Finally, the successfully picketed an Italian ship Oakland at the start of the Iraq War, -Dispatcher staff reports Neptune Jade, desperate to unload in the Port of Oakland to protest the longshore workers refused to cross its cargo in a U. S. West Coast port killing of a young anti-capitalist glo- their picket lines as they had done "Solidarity Has No Borders: the but finding no safe haven, departed balization protester in Genoa. six years earlier in the Neptune Jade Journey of the Neptune Jade" is avail- for Vancouver, Canada, another ILWU Jack Heyman, who had been sent picket line. One difference, he noted, able for $20 ( plus $5 handling fee) port. Labor activists across the bor- to Liverpool by then-ILWU President was that Oakland mayor Jerry Brown from its producer: der also set up a picket, forcing the Brian McWilliams early in their strug- himself participated in the Neptune Labor Video Project Neptune Jade to sail for Japan. There gle in 1996, drew a direct connection Jade picket, but he now supports the P.O. Box 720027 Japanese dockworkers, well aware of from Liverpool to the Neptune Jade to bloody police repression of the anti- San Francisco, CA 94172 the hot cargo on board, didn't touch the the ILWU's contentious 2002 contract Voice: 415-282-1908 / Fax: 415-695-1369 ship. Finally the ship sailed to Taiwan negotiations and the anti-Iraq War war demonstration. The veil of 9/11 "national secu- Email: lvp sf @ lab ornet . org where the cargo was discharged and protests. When PMA and the Bush had been used by the govern- Fifty percent of the proceeds will the Neptune Jade, now internationally administration threatened the ILWU rity," ment to cover the peaceful protesters go to the legal defense campaign to notorious, was renamed. during the 2002 contract negotiations, as "terrorists." Scores were shot with expose the brutal police attack on Such power of coordinated action he said, these activists and dock- so-called less-than-lethal weapons, peaceful anti-war protesters and long- by workers in three different coun- workers internationally were readily including nine longshore workers and shore workers in the Port of Oakland tries sent shivers down the spine of mobilized to support the ILWU, from then-Business Agent Heyman was in April 2003. The campaign is being maritime companies around the globe. marches and rallies in San Francisco arrested while trying to protect his organized by the Transport Workers members against the police assault. Solidarity Committee. JEFF SMITH RECOGNIZED AS POLITICAL ACTIVIST

Dawn Des Brisay ILWU Columbia River District Council President Jeff Smith (center) received the Pat Quigley Award for outstanding contributions to labor's politi- cal program at the Oregon AFL-CIO Convention in Portland Oct. 18. Pat Quigley was a longtime member and president of Asbestos Workers Local 36 and a political activist. He died several years ago from liver cancer at the age of 52. The Oregon AFL-CIO established an award in his memory to be given to a union member active in politics. The award was pre- sented by Tim Nesbitt, President of the Oregon AFL-CIO (left) and Brad Will, Secretary-Treasurer of the Oregon AFL-CIO (right). In making the presentation Nesbitt said Smith deserved the award for his never-say-die enthusiasm and tireless commitment to Oregon's union movement, for feeding hundreds of Labor 2004 volunteers, for fueling the federation's best-ever political mobilization in 2004 and for always being there for his brothers and sisters on the front. The Neptune Jade not being worked at the Port of Oakland. 12 • ne u11%,00 ruwu October 2005 ILWU Book & Video Sale

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