by admin | Aug 18, 2014 | Featured, July/August 2014 Dispatcher
An 18-month campaign by Bay Area recycling workers to improve pay and benefits hit a new milestone on July 30 when the Oakland City Council voted unanimously to raise recycler wages in the city’s new 10-year residential waste and recycling service franchise...
by admin | Aug 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
Too often, the zero waste workers in our community get zero respect. Check out this great video of Alejandra Leon – recycling sorter at Waste Management and worker leader of ILWU Local 6 – Sustainable Recycling • Justicia Para Recicladores campaign speaking at...
by admin | Aug 13, 2014 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs, July/August 2014 Dispatcher
ILWU Longshore Caucus delegates reconvened in San Francisco on July 21 and 22 to review the status of ongoing Longshore contract negotiations. Caucus Chair Joe Cortez quickly brought the session to order, then turned over the podium to International President Bob...
by admin | Aug 12, 2014 | Aug/Sept 2013 Dispatcher
A tentative agreement for a new contract covering grain terminals in the Pacific Northwest was reached on August 11, by a negotiating committee representing five ILWU local unions: Local 4 in Vancouver, Local 8 in Portland, Local 19 in Seattle, and Local 21 in...
by admin | Aug 12, 2014 | In the News
From the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service: WASHINGTON, D.C. — Scot L. Beckenbaugh, Acting Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS), issued the following statement today on a tentative agreement reached just prior to midnight (PST)...
by admin | Jul 25, 2014 | In the News
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SAN FRANCISCO (July 25, 2014) – The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) today issued the following statement: After several days of productive contract talks, both parties concluded...
by admin | Jul 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
SAN FRANCISCO (July 18, 2014) – The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) today issued the following statement: After several days of ongoing talks, both parties will break from negotiations next Monday and...
by admin | Jul 16, 2014 | Featured, Solidarity
Twenty-one crewmembers serving on the Liberian-flagged vessel Vega-Reederei have organized a picket line at the Port of Long Beach, CA, to protest their employer’s failure to pay workers for up to four months of back wages. Abuses of seafaring crew are common in the...
by admin | Jul 15, 2014 | In the News
by CAL WINSLOW on July 3, 2014 July 5, 2014 marks the 80th anniversary of “Bloody Thursday”, July 5, 1934, a day that shook San Francisco. The events that day inflamed the working people of San Francisco and the Bay Area. They made the great General Strike of 1934...
by admin | Jul 11, 2014 | In the News
SAN FRANCISCO (July 11, 2014) – The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) today issued the following statement: The parties have resumed negotiations following a three-day break during which the ILWU was engaged...
