Business Agent Teddy Espeleta, Business Agent Cyrus Kodani, Business Agent Steven Lee, Maui Division Director Roberto Andrion, Business Agent Joe Aquino, Arianny Andrion (Business Agent Charles Andrion’s daughter), Emy Andrion (Roberto Andrion’s wife), Isaac Anthony Madriaga (Emmanuel’s Baltazar’s grandson), Digno Castillo from Unit 2520, Fe Cooper Steward from Unit 2520 Grand Wailea, Business Agent and PAC coordinator Emmanuel Baltazar, Business Agent and PAC Chair John Simpliciano, Marilyn Caluntad from Unit 2520, Business Agent Jerrybeth De Mello holding signs thanking passing drivers for voting for Biden on November 9, 2020 (photo courtesy of Emmanuel Baltazar - mahalo Manny!).
Reprinted from The Dispatcher
After an election with historic levels of voter turnout, Joe Biden will be the 46th president of the United States. California Senator and Oakland native Kamala Harris, the daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrant parents, will become the first woman, first African-American, and first Indian-American to serve as vice president.
The new administration will inherit an unprecedented health and economic crisis caused by Trump’s mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic. The virus is running unchecked throughout the United States which reached the grim milestone of 10-million COVID-19 infections the week following the election. With over 100,000 new infections each day, and hospitals nearing ICU capacity throughout the Midwest, scientists are warning that the pandemic is entering its worst stage yet.
The Biden administration will also need to repair fractured relationships with allies in Western Europe and restore confidence in America’s democratic institutions that were undermined by four years of Trump’s authoritarian attacks.
ILWU leaders react
“Congratulations to Presidentelect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris,” said ILWU International President Willie Adams. “Our democracy was on the ballot this year. Millions of Americans voted to stand up for the democratic values this country was built on. The working class was the true hero of
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