The International Longshore and Warehouse Union West Coast local is set to strike:
The United States doesn’t commemorate International Worker’s Day, preferring instead to salute the nation’s workers on Labor Day. That’s largely because of the close association between May 1 and international socialism. Strangely, International Worker’s Day occurs on May 1 to pay tribute to ‘the Chicago Martyrs’ — the labor organizers executed after the Haymarket Riot in 1886. Despite its American origin, May 1 is a day of celebration for communists — not for most Americans. So leaving aside the question of why the nation’s dockhands are going to strike in support of America’s’ enemies in Iraq — and even Afghanistan! — why would they choose to do so on May 1? I mean, why would any union so clearly signal that it does not have America’s interests at heart? Where are the Pinkertons when you need them?
