Day 3 started with some 502 youth delegates, John Collins Jr, Chad Goodrich and Aaron Higo. Then we were honoured to have BCFED President Irene Lanzinger. From Local 13 in LongBeach we had Armondo Porras and Jose Lomeli. The MUA sent two delegates for us to speak with, Codey Buekers and Rachael Carter. We finished it all off with ILWU Canada 2nd VP Steve Nasby.
Day 2 for us started with a conversation with Rene-John Nicolas from Victory Square law office, about appropriate use of social media and some of its benefits and pitfalls. We then spoke with Brian Campbell from the BCFED occupational health and safety centre. Next up was Brother Dean McGrath, President of ILWU Local 23 in Tacoma. We finished the day with Allison Tremblay, also from Victory Square, and spoke about issues around port security.
ILWU pensioners Tom Dufesne, Mike Morino, and Barry Campbell join us right after their presentation on the history of the ILWU in Canada. We were then joined by actor Ian Ruskin, who performed a one man play on the life of Harry Bridges.
Peter Lahay joins us to have a quick chat about the Liverpool dockers dispute 20 years ago.
Friend of the show Mich-Elle Myers of the MUA calls in and gives us a update live from the Hutchison picket line.
ILWU 502 President Tim Farrell and Brother Adam Noullett join us to discuss what we all took away from the last ILWU convention last June in Hawaii. We also talk about the grain workers affiliating with the ILWU Canada, Qatar Airways and couple other current events.