by admin | Dec 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
This holiday season, unions are again calling on one of the world’s largest jewellery retailers to clean up its supplier of diamonds. They are urging Signet to demand that multinational mining and metals giant Rio Tinto respect workers’ rights, indigenous peoples and...
by admin | Dec 3, 2015 | Featured, Uncategorized
A report by Dan McKisson, Local 19 and Rich Austin, Pensioner President McEllrath assigned us to attend the 2015 Single-Payer Strategy Conference in Chicago, IL on October 30 – November 1, 2015. The conference was a collaborative effort involving Labor Campaign...
by admin | Nov 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
Nov. 6, 2015ILWU Brothers and Sisters: As you know, politicians have been publicly and inaccurately blaming congestion at the ports on those of us who work on the docks. They are opportunistically using industry-caused congestion as an excuse to introduce legislation...
by admin | Sep 20, 2015 | Uncategorized
Editors note: The following report submitted by the ILWU’s Panama Canal Division explains how members of the Panama Canal Pilots Union have been testing new equipment and procedures at the expanded canal which is expected to become operational soon. A total of 52...
by admin | Sep 18, 2015 | Uncategorized
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (September 18, 2015) – Longshore workers and marine clerks who have moved cargo at the Ports of Oakland and San Francisco since 1934 have rejected a developer’s plan to export coal through former Oakland Army Base. International Longshore and...
by admin | Aug 20, 2015 | Uncategorized
Members of the Maritime Union Australia, Queensland Branch in Brisbane recently recorded a solidarity message to the ILWU while on the picket line.
