by admin | Aug 14, 2013 | Featured
ILWU members and pensioners came together on July 5 along the West Coast to remember Bloody Thursday and honor the memory and sacrifice made by the martyrs of the 1934 West Coast Strike—the struggle that gave birth the ILWU and radically improved the wages and...
by admin | Aug 7, 2013 | Featured
PORTLAND, OR (August 7, 2013) – The International Longshore and Warehouse Union has filed a lawsuit against the Port of Portland, alleging numerous ongoing violations of the Oregon Public Records Act (“OPRA”). “Oregonians have a right to know how whether the Port of...
by admin | Jul 18, 2013 | Featured
On July 17, Recycling workers who process materials collected from residents in Oakland and other East Bay cities will protested in front of Waste Management’s corporate headquarters at 172 98th Avenue in Oakland, CA. Workers said they are frustrated because Waste...
by admin | Jun 24, 2013 | Featured
Every longshore worker already knows what government investigators recently told Congress: the TWIC system is a failure. GAO flunks TWIC A report released in early May by the Government Accounting Office (GAO) confirmed the failure of expensive new scanners that were...
by admin | Jun 20, 2013 | Featured
Thirty workers at Pacific Tugboat Service (PTS) are now members of the ILWU’s Marine Division, the Inlandboatmen’s Union (IBU). On May 30th, the company agreed to recognize the union following a successful organizing effort by PTS workers that was coordinated by IBU...
by admin | May 28, 2013 | Featured
Longshore workers in Oregon and Washington are continuing their round-the-clock fight for a fair contract at grain terminals owned by some of the world’s largest grain corporations nearly a year after negotiations began last August. ILWU workers have exported a...
