by admin | Jan 3, 2011 | Uncategorized
Over the past several years, Rite Aid executives have made a number of serious missteps that have hurt the company’s business. The nation’s third-largest retail drug store chain has not made a profit in more than three years, causing investors to suffer heavy losses....
by admin | Dec 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
For the past 13 years, Local 13’s Lisa Tonson has been coordinating the Thanksgiving turkey basket giveaway which benefits needy families throughout the Los Angeles area. This year the program was able to distribute 1,500 turkeys to families struggling in these tough...
by admin | Dec 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
This is the third of a three-part series focusing on the recollections of ILWU leaders who made important contributions to the building of the union in Hawaii. It features Carl Damaso, a Filipino immigrant sugar worker whose struggles against the employers in the cane...
by admin | Dec 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
The October issue of the Dispatcher reported that the ILWU Pacific Pensioners Association was sounding the alarm about a potential attack on Social Security by President Obama’s bipartisan Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform which was created to propose ways to...
by admin | Dec 16, 2010 | Uncategorized
ILWU members have some experience with employer lockouts, including the 10-day Longshore lockout in 2002 and the 104-day lockout by Rio Tinto against the families in Boron. But a lockout that lasts 9 months is different, which is the challenge facing dozens of workers...
by admin | Dec 16, 2010 | Uncategorized
As many as 300 jobs that supported union families for 22 years in the Philadelphia area suddenly disappeared last summer when Fresh Del Monte Produce stopped using ILA union workers to unload pineapples, bananas and other fresh fruit at a New Jersey port across from...
