Hi I’m a longshoreman. It’s one of those quintessential tough guy, blue collar jobs and, just like coal miners, people died fighting for our union.

Our motto is “an injury to one is an injury to all” because all workers deserve a union.

Don’t listen to this dipshit. Organize.
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Hey this blew up. Support @AlphabetWorkers and if you work in tech, you should join a union too.

Get ahold of @CODE_CWA or @CWAUnion and make it happen. nytimes.com/2021/01/04/opi…
@organizeworkers can help you too. Like I said, unions are for *all* workers. So whatever you do and wherever you work, we can help. 🌹

EWOC is a joint effort between @ueunion and @DSA_Labor started in response to unsafe working conditions under Covid-19. workerorganizing.org/?amp

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5 Jan
I’d be happy to. Prior to 1934, West Coast longshoremen (ie. dockworkers, those of us who load and unload ships) were hired through a daily routine known as the “shape-up” — “the most despised symbol of the longshoremen’s oppression.” 🧵
The shape-up was systemic throughout the maritime world, from SF to Boston, London and Durban, going back to at least the 1860s. It carried on elsewhere, but was finally eradicated here with the 1934 West Coast Waterfront Strike, one of the most important strikes in US history.
The shape-up was a brutal and deeply exploitative hiring scheme. Men would gather along the docks in the morning, desperately hoping to get a shift that day. The company foreman would look over the men and hand pick them one by one, leaving most empty-handed.
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