by admin | Nov 22, 2011 | Featured
Labor archives are playing a central role in preserving working people’s history, supporting related research, and educating people about the importance of unions in shaping the political and social landscape in the US. From its earliest days, the ILWU has understood...
by admin | Nov 22, 2011 | Featured
The ILWU is taking steps to safeguard dockworkers and the public from thousands of potentially explosive refrigerated shipping containers that have been arriving from overseas ports. Killings spark company report The ILWU first learned about the hazard on October 20....
by admin | Nov 19, 2011 | Featured
The PCPA convention was a huge success. Although the turnout was good, more pensioners should have attended. At the PCPA Executive Board meeting that preceded the convention there was discussion relating to the lack of membership diversity. There is a real...
by admin | Nov 9, 2011 | Featured
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (NOVEMBER 9, 2011) – The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) has announced to its members at 30 West Coast ports the results of an arbitration hearing in which safety procedures designed to protect dockworkers and the public from...
by admin | Oct 21, 2011 | Featured
The banner of the Pacific Coast Pensioners Association reads: “Retired from the job…not from the struggle.” That same working class ideology was on display during the PCPA Convention from September 19 – 21, 2011 in Seattle, WA. Pensioners from up and down the...
by admin | Oct 19, 2011 | Featured
Enraged shouts broke the silence outside Georgia- Pacific’s Kelly Point warehouse facility in Portland on the afternoon of September 9th when workers halted operations and called a strike to protest unfair labor practices. “They want to cut just about everything you...
