Iowa Labor Solidarity Committee of Occupy Oakland

Tova is involved in the labor solidarity committee of occupy oakland which worked to bring in labor unions into the organizing of the general strike. The teachers union was very much involved and so was the seiu particularly the seiu the city workers were down there every day and saw what was going on, she says. Tova: We had support from one or two teamsters locals and the iowu is primarily local 10 the longshoreman whole proposal was to march down to the port uh and shut down the port of oakland we had people involved from iowu although I pretty sure that the iowU local 10 officially was not involved in calling for that strike but there were members