“The Picket Line”: news from workers and their unions

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News from workérs and’ their
unions around the globe, across the
country and within our state.

what the labor movement has been workers had signed union auth-
saying for years now, that low orization cards. The local unions, §
unemployment rates overlook the using six organizers got more
fact that many in the county are than 1800 workers to sign in a §
working and poor. .A study of three-week period. ,
nearby counties reveals that the ’
median income in Tompkins * West Coast Longshoremen §
County is $8,000 less than these Boycott El Salvador—Denise §
other areas. An article in the Bergez, of Neighbor to Neighbor (a §
Ithaca Journal confirmed several _US-El Salvadoran Solidarity §
weeks ago that poverty is indeed a organization) says that thousands §
growing problem and stated that of longshoremen, members of the §
34% of the children under 5 years International “ Longshore and §
§ old in the Town of Caroline are Warehousemen s Union (ILWU) §
S idine in site. So much for honored picket lines set up by ;
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¢ BASF Workers Win Major
Victory—For 5 1/2 years hundreds
of Louisiana BASF workers,
members of the Oil, Chemical and

B.C. The group has launched a
x Atomic Workers Union (OCAW)

boycott of El Salvadoran coffee
because of human rights abuses
and policies of the US backed
right-wing regime in El Salvador.
Since 1982 more than 70,000 trade
unionists, religious people, peas-

ants and others have been
between environmental, labor, murdered by US backed govern-
public health and civil rights ment death squads. The boycott

Local 40-620, have been locked out
of their jobs. Over the years the
union built a powerful alliance