Inkworks Press
2827 Seventh St
Berkeley CA 94710
Phone: 510.845.7111
Fax: 510.845.6753
inkworkspress.org
13 March 2008
Robert McEllrath. President
International Longshore and Warehouse Union
1188 Franklin St
San Francisco CA 94109
fax: 415.775.1302
Dear ILWU Brothers and Sisters,
This is to convey our most enthusiastic support and solidarity for your historic decision to shut down all West Coast ports in the US for 8 hours on the International Workers Day, May 1st 2008, for a "No Peace No Work Holiday," and "to demand an immediate end to the war and occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan and the withdrawal of US troops from the Middle East"! Thank you for providing the leadership and inspiration we all need to take action to end this war now.
The Inkworks Press Collective unanimously endorsed your "clarion call" at its regular meeting, 11 March 2008. We voted to dedicate our May Day holiday to support of your action, and to urge other workers' collectives to do the same.
Inkworks Press is a collectively-owned and managed union shop (members of Teamsters Graphic Communications Conference, DC 2), serving the community in the SF Bay Area. We take May Day as one of our regular holidays, and look forward to supporting your action on May 1st in whatever way we can.
In solidarity,
Lori Bradford, Chris Kinder, Nobuo Nishi, Steering Committee,
for the Inkworks Collective
cc: dockers@gn.apc.org