Ken Riley, President of the International Longshoreman Association 1142, http://www.ila1422.com/, called this week for a nationwide strike of dock workers in order to protest unsafe conditions and restrictive hiring on the docks. Riley’s local led day-long wildcat strikes of dockworkers in 2013.
“We are protesting damage to the nation’s economy that is caused by the kind of interference that President Donald Trump promised to stop,” Riley said in a statement.
Riley says his union plans to protest understaffing on the docks, which has led to unsafe conditions and excessive overtime work. Part of the reason for the understaffing, says Riley, is that overly restrictive background checks prevent many qualified people from taking jobs on the docks.
There hasn’t been a date set for the strike. Riley hopes that it coincides with a march of dockworkers on the White House.
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