Global News BC: Cargo loaders at B.C.’s ports issue 72 hour strike notice https://globalnews.ca/news/9798865/bc-port-cargo-loaders-72-hour-strike-notice/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #InternationalLongshoreandWarehouseUnionCanada #MetroVancouverportstrike #PortstrikeVancouver #BCportstrikenotice #Cargoworkers #portstrike #Longshore #Economy #Port

Solidarity with striking dockworkers!

Dockers refused to come to work on June 2, causing the complete shut down of the ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, Oakland, Tacoma, Seattle and Hueneme. This came in the wake of insulting offers of a $1.56/hour wage increase by the Pacific Maritime Association.

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Today in Labor History April 14, 1917: IWW sailors went on strike in Philadelphia and won a ten dollar per month raise. Ben Fletcher, an African-American IWW organizer, was instrumental in organizing the Philadelphia waterfront. By 1916, the IWW, under Fletcher’s leadership, controlled all but two of Philly’s docks. At that time, 10% of the IWW was made up of African-American workers. Most other unions refused to organize black workers. In 1917, Fletcher was nearly lynched, as he was organizing workers in Virginia. In 1918, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison for organizing workers during war time. He served three years.

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Today in Labor History March 15, 1877: Ben Fletcher, African-American IWW organizer was born on this date. Fletcher organized longshoremen in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He joined the Wobblies (IWW) in 1912, became secretary of the IWW District Council in 1913. He also co-founded the interracial Local 8 in 1913. By 1916, thanks in large part to Fletcher’s organizing skill, all but two of Philadelphia’s docks were controlled by the IWW. And the union maintained control of the Philly waterfront for about a decade. After the 1913 strike, Fletcher traveled up and down the east coast organizing dockers. However, he was nearly lynched in Norfolk, Virginia in 1917. At that time, roughly 10% of the IWW’s 1 million members were African American. Most had been rejected from other unions because of their skin color. In 1918, the state arrested him, sentencing him to ten years for the crime of organizing workers during wartime. He served three years.

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@ijustmightbe These are beautiful images with interesting #sedimentary #structure, some possibly from oblique waves and #longshore drift? My appreciation would be even greater if you gave a notion of #scale in your #caption. Thanks for posting.