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Workers Vanguard No. 872 |
9 June 2006 |
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Correction In “Government Spy Network Exposed, Again” (WV No. 871, 26 May), WV editorial introduced a factual error, which was drawn to our attention by a reader on the West Coast. In the article, we wrote: “The ‘progressive’ International Longshore and Warehouse Union [ILWU] bureaucrats call for implementing the Maritime Transportation Security Act [MTSA] and its mandated ‘background checks’ of waterfront workers, which would directly threaten blacks and Latinos who have been on the receiving end of racist cop harassment.” In fact, while the ILWU leadership calls for the implementation of particular sections of the MTSA, it opposes background checks of longshore workers “on the grounds that employers might dismiss longshoremen because of previous convictions that have no bearing on security,” as a 24 April Journal of Commerce article put it.
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