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New Zealand maritime union backs California workers’ organizing fight |
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Militant/Felicity Coggan
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand—Dockworkers and seafarers, members of Maritime Union Local 13 here, have joined an international campaign to support the union-organizing drive by more than 600 workers at Blue Diamond Growers almond processing plant in Sacramento, California. Blue Diamond Growers runs the largest such plant in the world.
Over the past year and a half, workers at Blue Diamond have fought to organize into International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 17. They are fighting for better wages, job security, improved health and safety, and respect on the job. The company has aggressively campaigned against the union, including firing four union supporters on flimsy pretexts, the union charges. —FELICITY COGGAN AND NICK FOWLER Front page (for this issue) | Home | Text-version home |