Media Advisory

Oct. 4, 2002

Contact: ILWU Local 10 Secretary-Treasurer Clarence Thomas 415-760-9685

ILWU to hold rally with Teamsters, Labor Council to protest PMA lockout in Oakland Saturday

( Oakland ) – Bay Area ILWU members will join with a large group of community leaders and labor activists tomorrow at Port View Park in Oakland to speak out against the PMA lockout of West Coast ports.  A caravan of Teamster truck drivers, members of the Central Labor Council of Alameda County and ILWU Local 10 members will form a picket line rally to display their solidarity.

Participants in the rally have come together to fight on behalf of ILWU workers who are locked out by the PMA, and also to voice their opposition to the possible use of a Taft-Hartley injunction by the Bush administration.

WHO:      ILWU, Teamsters, Central Labor Council of Alameda Co.

WHAT:    Solidarity Rally in Support of ILWU Workers

WHERE: Port View Park , Foot of 7^th St. , Oakland

WHEN:    Saturday, October 5, 10:00 a.m.