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Tron ore workers march on day 98 of their pay strike STRIK embodied in the final ILA deal, East Coast dockers will be tied to it for the next three years.
ILA leader Gleason was last week confident that the whole affair could be concluded today, with the deal being put to the vote in individual ports.
In Minnesota, 18,000 ironore workers have been on official strike for over 15 weeks on a pay claim, despite efforts of steel union boss Lloyd McBride to force in a "compromise" proposal from the employers.
12,000 workers marched through the local town of Virginia on November 6 in a Virminis on Naramhar fin a show of strength, which culminated in a 2,500-strong rally addressed by leading Steel and AFL-CIO bureaucrats.
This indication of militant struggle among steel workers is in sharp contrast to the passive acceptance by USWA officials of layoffs and plant shut-downs elsewhere in the The fight for a principled leadership inside the US labour movement is essential.
A INSTREL In every struggle the treacherous role of the existina union bureaucrav in UHIVUMVIUNJ seeking to shackle the working class to the strategy and even the political parties of the ruling class is plain to see.
A programme to defend jobs and living standards must be raised, along with the demand that the unions locally and nationally break from the Democrats and the Republicans in order to build a Labor Party.
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