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MAY 2008
Cinco de Mayo! have a cerveza for me...
Lee of Seattle 86 says: "Check this out a great video about the Los Angeles Building Trades and especially the Ironworkers Locals 416 and 433. They have been pushing this for a while." Be patient--there's 30 seconds of test pattern as the video loads.

i know this is late, but Justine Ida of local 40 New York City had some time in New York Magazine April 21, 2008--the link to the article: http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/46223/. I want her t-shirt.
and in more girly news: the 2008 Women Building California conference is coming up in May and is being held in Oakland, CA. The ironworker women in California have been using it as a great opportunity to meet with and exchange ideas and support each other. More information and registration can be found on the California Building Trades website http://www.sbctc.org/.

And I wanted to mention the dockworkers for their part in the May Day shut down of the ports.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/08/ED8L101F5U.DTL and http://www.democracynow.org/2008/5/2/25_000_dockworkers_shut_down_west
Whether you agree how and when the war should end, the protest was a very powerful and bold commitment to be made by a labor union. It seemed to frighten people who at times commented about Chinese dockworkers or Mexican dockworkers taking jobs--if the union don't grow a pair soon, our jobs will be outsourced anyhow, whether we've been meek and mild or hesistantly disagreeable. This "democracy" has got to start hearing something from the working class and the unions, we can't always be afraid and back down when we're called "commies" (how lame and old is that name-calling? and what the heck kind of relevancy does that name calling have toward all this? it's like calling all the protesters "fat.") or "anti-patriotic"--we are fighting for the rights this country was founded on--not the rights of the most wealthy to make the most (war) profit off of everyone else, but for everyone to be working on the "equal rights" playing field to pursue that damned "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." bah.

The 2008 Ironworker women Calendar is for sale at ironworkergear.com. Also, you might want to try the fine folks at workrags.com.

take care, work safe