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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=Lvpsf@igc.org href="mailto:Lvpsf@igc.org">Steve Zeltzer</A> </DIV>
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, December 10, 2011 10:08 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Alameda Building Trades Council Opposes Port
Action</DIV></DIV>
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class=submitted>Bill Mongelluzzo | Dec 9, 2011 9:08PM GMT</DIV>
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class="field-item odd">Labor group says Dec. 12 shutdown ‘makes no sense,’ backs
ILWU opposition</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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second major labor group announced its opposition Friday to plans by the Occupy
movement to shut down the port on Monday.</DIV>
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County Building and Constructions Trades Council, which represents unions whose
workers are employed by companies serving the Port of Oakland, joined the
International Longshore and Warehouse Union in rejecting calls by protesters to
have organized labor’s support in blocking work at the ports on Dec. 12.</DIV>
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council’s move widens the division between labor groups and an Occupy movement
that claims to speak for the principles and goals of union workers. The
announced effort to shut down ports up and down the U.S. West Coast would be the
most ambitious effort yet by a protest that began in New York as Occupy Wall
Street.</DIV>
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style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 20px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 13px; PADDING-TOP: 0px">“Unions
affiliated with this council represent hundreds of workers who are working and
have worked at the Port of Oakland. Not one of these unions has endorsed the
call to shut down the port,” the San Francisco Bay-area trades council stated
Friday.</DIV>
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Occupy movements at West Coast ports from Seattle to San Diego have <A
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for demonstrations and a shutdown of all West Coast ports on Monday</U></A>. As
with the Occupy Wall Street movement, the West Coast movements are attempting to
draw attention to disparity of wealth in the country, and related issues.</DIV>
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Alameda County council noted its affiliate unions have already called for an end
to the greed on Wall Street and an end to home foreclosures by banks. Council
affiliates also supported students calling for affordable education, and they
have supported teachers fighting to save their jobs and keep schools from
closing.</DIV>
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style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 20px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 13px; PADDING-TOP: 0px">“However,
the call to shut down operations at the Port of Oakland, where many of our
unemployed workers and newly-indentured apprentices have recently been able to
get back to work, makes no sense,” the council said.</DIV>
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ILWU has urged its members not to support the port shutdown. Union officers said
the ILWU was not consulted by the Occupy movement, and they said the movement is
attempting to circumvent the ILWU’s democratic process of voting for job
actions.</DIV>
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style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 20px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 13px; PADDING-TOP: 0px">The
building trades council had a similar message for the Occupy movement. “Any
effort that adversely affects the jobs and livelihood of the port’s workers –
without considering the voice and sentiment of the workers and their unions – is
wrong,” the council said.</DIV></DIV></DIV></SPAN></BODY></HTML>