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Whatever the circumstances behind the stoppages, they are a clear sign that the deal to keep workers on the job without a contract is being challenged by pent-up rank-and-file anger.
Amid growing anxiety among the financial elite, another important aspect of this letter must be stressed: The financial oligarchy’s fear that control over this contract negotiation may spill out of the hands of the pro-corporate ILWU.
While ILWU bureaucrats are making every possible effort to prevent job actions, this is being challenged by the global resurgence of the class struggle.
Twenty-two thousand West Coast dockworkers are being kept on the job after their contract expired at midnight Friday morning without a new deal.
A deadline must be set for a new deal which meets workers’ demands. If an acceptable contract is not signed by that time, a strike must be called at all 29 port facilities.