Seattle ILWU Make Juneteenth a paid holiday!

International Longshore and Warehouse Union workers stopped work on June 19 and marched on the Seattle waterfront in a Juneteenth labor action. Other unions marched with ILWU Local 19. The ILWU is striving to make Juneteenth a paid holiday.

— Story by Jim McMahan

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