by admin | Jul 12, 2011 | Uncategorized
About 100 union dock workers, including union leaders, were arrested Monday afternoon after they tore down a chain-link gate and protested inside the EGT grain terminal at the Port of Longview. In one of the boldest labor demonstrations in recent memory, members of...
by admin | Jun 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
While the official unemployment rate hovers at 9 percent—which doesn’t include workers who are working part-time or have dropped out of the job market entirely—other workers are being squeezed to work harder, longer and faster. It’s no wonder corporate profits are up...
by admin | Jun 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
ILWU pensioner, community and labor leader, and San Francisco Redevelopment Commissioner Leroy King was honored by over 200 people on May 17th. A bronze bust of King, sculpted by artist Dina Angel-Wing, was unveiled at the Jazz Heritage Center in San Francisco’s...
by admin | Jun 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
Before John Eberhardt started jumping out of airplanes, he was working on the docks as a Local 13 member and later as a foreman with Local 94. Co-worker Manuel Cabrera got him to take his first jump on July 7, 2002 in the Mojave Desert town of California City – just...
by admin | Jun 16, 2011 | Events, Uncategorized
Los Angeles/Long Beach is hosting a very big event with up to 5,000 expected. The picnic happens at Harry Bridges Memorial Park in Long Beach next to the Queen Mary. But the day actually begins at 9am when members gather at Roosevelt Park Cemetery in Gardena to honor...
by admin | Jun 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
Surrey, British Columbia – ILWU local 502 started raising funds for the Vancouver Children’s Hospital three months ago with a goal to at least raise $10,000. The goal was easily met. The response from everyone in the local was so overwhelming that a new target was set...
