by admin | Mar 4, 2013 | Featured
Recycling is supposed to be good and green, but there’s plenty that’s disturbing and dangerous about this fast-growing niche in the nation’s highly-profitable $55 billion-dollar waste industry. Most recycling workers suffer from poverty wages, meager benefits,...
by admin | Jan 31, 2013 | Featured
ILWU Local 13 has represented a dozen commercial fumigators in the Port of Los Angeles since 1990. These members fumigate the fruit that longshoreman discharge at SSAs berth 55 in San Pedro. Late in 2012 one of the members reported contract violations to the union and...
by admin | Jan 30, 2013 | Featured
It was early in the afternoon of December 29, 2012 at the Pacific Beach Hotel – site of countless rallies and demonstrations led by Local 142. But on this day, instead of chants and slogans there were cheers, hugs, and high-fives. After more than 10 years of struggle,...
by admin | Jan 10, 2013 | Featured
ILWU members along the Coast banded together to make possible a happy holiday season for thousands of families that are still struggling in an economy that has failed to fully recover from the recent recession. Members, pensioners and auxiliary clubs partnered with...
by admin | Jan 4, 2013 | Featured
Keith Madding, a member of the Inlandboatmen’s Union (IBU), the ILWU’s Marine Division, rescued a man who was struggling to stay afloat in the waters outside of San Francisco Bay. Madding was working on a tugboat named “Guard” during the early morning of October 31....
