by admin | Jan 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
Rite Aid workers, union activists and community supporters mobilized for a national “Day of Action” on December 15th to focus attention on the company’s disrespect for workers’ rights. Rite Aid workers in Lancaster, CA, Philadelphia, PA and Cleveland, OH are fighting...
by admin | Jan 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
Year after year, ILWU members, Auxiliaries and pensioners assist families who are struggling through hard times, especially during the holiday season. With the prolonged recession that has hurt so many workers these past few years, the help that ILWU members gave...
by admin | Jan 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
Surrey, British Columbia – The longshore brothers and sisters of local ILWU 502 came out to make a difference during the holiday season. Every year hundreds of pounds of food are collected at the union hall for the Surrey Food Bank. This year their initiate took...
by admin | Jan 12, 2011 | Uncategorized
A recent study of the U.S. port trucking industry finds that the nation’s 110,000 port truck drivers, who move millions of cargo containers annually from port cities to store shelves across the country, are highly vulnerable to illegal employment classification...
by admin | Jan 11, 2011 | Uncategorized
Later this month, President Obama is expected to send the Korea-United States Free Trade Agreement to Congress for ratification. Business leaders are hailing the move as step towards greater bi-partisanship, which these days means Democrats stepping across the aisle...
by admin | Jan 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
ILWU Local 34 retiree Nate Thornton passed away quietly on January 2, but his life was anything but quiet. His political activism spanned seven decades and he was one of the last living survivors of the International Brigades. The International Brigades were military...
