Today in 1999 The International Longshore and Warehouse Union closed all ports on the West Coast in solidarity with a national day of protest to free Mumia Abu-Jamal, an activist and journalist who was on death row in Pennsylvania at the time.~ Today in Labor History
• ‘We are a union family. We are not the problem.’ • Poultry plant workers awarded $3.75m after 8-year lawsuit • 5 Teamster kids win Union Plus Scholarship winners • Workers walk out when two are wrongly let go • Clara Lemlich Shavelson, crusading leader of labor rights • Retired Teamster asks Congress to save troubled pension funds • Court nominee sided with Trump casino case to thwart union drive • Pilot unions unite to fight attempts to eliminate pilots from flight deck
General Membership Meetings: Baltimore - May. 5@ 10 a.m. Salisbury - May 19 @10 a.m. Please be present and on time. And bring a coworker!
• ‘We are a union family. 
