May Day 2011 In San Francisco With ILWU Local 10 Leader Trent Willis

ILWU Local 10 past president, present member of the executive board and chair of the ILWU Local 10 Defense Committee spoke at the 2011 San Francisco May Day rally at San Francisco Civic Center. ILWU Local 10 has been sued by the Pacific Maratime Association PMA after the rank and file members refused to work on April 4, 2011 in solidarity with Wisconsin public workers and in honor of the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King. King was murdered while in Memphis, Tennessee where he was supporting the fight for unionization of the transit workers.
Production of Labor Video Project www.laborvideo.org laborvideo.blip.tv

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• may day 2011
• ilwu local 10
• union busting
• Pacific Maritime Association
• PMA
• longshore workers
• general strike
• immigrant workers
• solidarity