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Recycling is important – and recycling workers deserve better conditions

Recycling is important – and recycling workers deserve better conditions

by admin | Mar 29, 2016 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs, March 2016 Dispatcher

Americans are beginning to dump our throw-away economy. Curbside recycling is now available in most west coast communities and more than 9,000 cities across America. It’s helping to divert one-third of our waste that used to be burned or buried. Recycling is also good...
HC&S sugar plantation in Hawaii to close

HC&S sugar plantation in Hawaii to close

by admin | Mar 29, 2016 | Featured, March 2016 Dispatcher

PUUNENE, Maui – At its peak, sugar was the number one industry in Hawaii with hundreds of thousands of acres under cultivation on Kauai, Oahu, Maui and Hawaii island. By 2015, only Maui’s Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company (HC&S) remained of the industry once...
ILWU Canada leadership course trains new leaders

ILWU Canada leadership course trains new leaders

by admin | Mar 29, 2016 | Featured, March 2016 Dispatcher

The ILWU Canada Leadership Course held on February 14-19 at Harrison Hot Springs in British Columbia, was a tremendous success. Our class was bursting at the seams with 26 participants who attended from ILWU Canada Locals 502, 505, 508, 514, 517, Grain Workers Union...
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