From the Handy Shipping Guide:
Our earlier stories make it plain that, as an official union dispute, the ILWU is entitled to ask other union members to refuse to work at a strike site, the ILWU says it now is prevented from legal picketing by this new regulation.”We see this over and over again –- domestic security organisations such as the Coast Guard, which is funded by taxpayer dollars, used to protect foreign companies to the detriment of the American worker.” — Leal Sundet, ILWU Coast Committeeman
Jeff Smith, President of ILWU Local 8, commented:
“The Coast Guard has not offered any justification as to why new zones of these sizes were chosen rather than more narrowly tailored, current zones that tread less upon free speech rights. The proposed zones prevent workers from engaging in meaningful, lawful protest activities by impeding our ability to form effective water pickets and informing crewmembers aboard vessels that they are about to cross fellow workers’ picket lines.”
