ILWU Local 19 3440 East Marginal Way S., Seattle WA 98126 206-623.

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PRESS RELEASE! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AUGUST 20, 2O13!

STPS TUNNEL PROJECT SHUT DOWN BY PICKETS, AMID REFUSAL TO HONOR CONTRACT

(Seattle, WA)--Several dozen members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 19 picketed the entrance of a marine terminal today, where soil material from Seattles tunnel boring machine was to be loaded onto trucks and barges. Pickets continue at the north end of Terminal 46 in the Port of Seattle. According to the union, the Seattle Tunnel Project (STP) voluntarily signed a binding agreement with Total Terminals International (TTI), which would have employed ILWU labor in their traditional jobs of moving cargo across a marine terminal. Even though the longshore union successfully unloaded Big Bertha, the tunnel boring machine now in operation, STP unilaterally broke the contract with TTI, taking longshore jobs and traditional union jurisdiction with it. "The Tunnel Project is manipulating other unions, as a stage to push the ILWU out of our traditional jobs, in spite of a signed binding contract that the ILWU will perform the work," says Cameron Williams, President of Local 19. As a simple matter, cargo handling on the Seattle waterfront has been ILWU for nearly 80 years, and it is through our union's vigilance that it will remain so. Trucks that showed up at the gate in the early hours of the morning turned back from the picket line without incident. The Seattle Police Department briey observed the picketers and left the scene, which has remained peaceful throughout the day.

Contact: Cameron Williams, (206) 375-6537 president@ilwulocal19.org https://twitter.com/ILWU19Seattle

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