by admin | Jul 26, 2011 | Featured, July/August 2011 Dispatcher
ILWU members and their families up and down the West Coast gathered to remember “Bloody Thursday” and the martyrs of the 1934 West Coast Waterfront strike, a struggle that would give birth to the ILWU and radically improve wages and working conditions for dock-...
by admin | Jul 25, 2011 | Dispatcher, Featured, July/August 2011 Dispatcher
Late in the morning on June 30th, operations were moving along as usual at Georgia-Pacific’s Kelly Point warehouse at the Port of Portland. Forklift drivers were moving loads of paper products at a brisk pace inside the warehouse, while the parking lot and loading...
by admin | Jul 24, 2011 | July/August 2011 Dispatcher
Rite Aid workers from seven states converged on the company’s annual shareholder meeting in Harris- burg, PA on June 23 to oppose management’s plan that would force employees to pay more for their health care – and show support for a 15-week “unfair labor practice”...
