by admin | Sep 28, 2012 | Featured
Wheat-based bread on Japan’s dinner tables and soy-fed beef in China – These are just two of the rapidly growing trends that are making American and Canadian grain hot export commodities. Thanks to these and other favorable conditions, grain is the new gold for...
by admin | Sep 28, 2012 | Featured
In the June issue of the Dispatcher, we reported that the ILWU and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) had taken the extraordinary step of jointly suing a PMA-member company, ICTSI, for its continued refusal to comply with the Pacific Coast Longshore and Clerks’...
by admin | Sep 28, 2012 | Featured
ILWU members in Southern California are taking the threat posed by the anti-union Prop 32 seriously. In addition to financial contributions made by Locals 13, 63 and 94, members are engaged in mobilization and educational efforts to make sure union members are aware...
by admin | Sep 28, 2012 | Featured
The first few moments of the ILWU Walk the Coast event on August 11 caused some apprehension for Local 13 longshoreman Dan Imbagliazzo. More than a year of preparation for the first annual coastwise charity event was about to unfold in the Berth 54/55 waterfront...
by admin | Sep 7, 2012 | Featured
Click on the link below to download a PDF update from the Maritime Union of New Zealand on the Ports of Auckland dispute. Sept 7 MUNZ Newsletter on the Ports of Auckland dispute (PDF).
by admin | Aug 16, 2012 | Featured
PORTLAND, OR (August 16, 2012) — Today, the ILWU filed a federal lawsuit against the Port of Portland and Bill Wyatt, its Executive Director, for unlawfully gifting nearly $5 million in public funds to a private Philippines-based company, ICTSI Oregon, Inc., and...
