by admin | Sep 8, 2011 | Featured
8 September 2011: The ITF has condemned the detention yesterday of ILWU (International Longshore and Warehouse Union) president Bob McEllrath while attending a protest in Vancouver, Washington, USA. He and other ILWU members were defending the job rights of workers...
by admin | Aug 8, 2011 | Featured
On Friday, August 5, hundreds of Longshore workers from Longview, Portland and Vancouver hand-delivered copies of the following letter to members of Operating Engineers Local 701 at the OE union hall in Gladstone, Oregon: Dear Brothers and Sisters of IUOE Local 701,...
by admin | Jul 29, 2011 | Featured
ILWU Local 21 members at the Port of Longview have gained coast- wise solidarity as they’ve raised the stakes in the ongoing dispute with EGT Development, a multinational grain exporter who is trying to interfere with longtime union jurisdiction that’s made the...
by admin | Jul 26, 2011 | Featured
ILWU members and their families up and down the West Coast gathered to remember “Bloody Thursday” and the martyrs of the 1934 West Coast Waterfront strike, a struggle that would give birth to the ILWU and radically improve wages and working conditions for dock-...
by admin | Jul 25, 2011 | Featured
Late in the morning on June 30th, operations were moving along as usual at Georgia-Pacific’s Kelly Point warehouse at the Port of Portland. Forklift drivers were moving loads of paper products at a brisk pace inside the warehouse, while the parking lot and loading...
by admin | Jun 16, 2011 | Featured
Within three years, container ships coming to California ports will be required to radically reduce emissions by turning-off dirty diesel power generators and plugging into electric shore power. The Port of Los Angeles led the way with this technology a decade ago,...
