by admin | Apr 2, 2014 | March 2014 Dispatcher
International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) – the rogue Pacific Maritime Association employer operating primarily in Third World ports with one U.S. operation at Terminal 6 in the Port of Portland, OR – reported that company profits shot up 20% in 2013...
by admin | Apr 2, 2014 | March 2014 Dispatcher
In June 2012, in response to the PMA and ILWU’s effort to seek court enforcement of the parties’ collective bargaining agreement against PMA member company ICTSI at its Terminal 6 facility in Portland, Oregon, ICTSI took the extreme and unprecedented step of suing the...
by admin | Apr 2, 2014 | Featured, Helping Our Community
In February, the Puget Sound District Council (PSDC) donated $1000 to public radio station KSVR-FM in Washington State’s Skagit Valley where the radio program, “We Do The Work,” is produced. The weekly half-hour show is co-hosted by Pacific Coast Pensioner President...
by admin | Apr 2, 2014 | Featured, March 2014 Dispatcher
When an expected 82 cruise ships arrive in San Francisco next year, most will be tied-up, secured and provisioned by ILWU members at the brand new James R. Herman Cruise Terminal on Pier 27, a $100 million-dollar, 88,000 square foot facility that will soon open for...
by admin | Apr 2, 2014 | March 2014 Dispatcher, Solidarity
Delegates who attended the Coast Longshore Division Caucus in San Francisco last month, provided a warm embrace to Honduran dock union leader Victor Crespo and two co-workers who addressed the Caucus on March 4. Delegates pledged their solidarity and unanimously voted...
by admin | Apr 2, 2014 | March 2014 Dispatcher
The 90 delegates and dozens of pensioners who gathered in San Francisco for the Coast Longshore Division Caucus concluded their two week meeting on March 7 after adopting an approach to negotiations for a new Longshore & Clerks Contract that expires on June 30....
by admin | Apr 1, 2014 | January 2014 Dispatcher
Corporate America is clear about what they want from Congress: lower taxes, less regulation and weaker unions. Now all three goals have been combined into one piece of legislation – a “free trade” agreement, known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) – involving the...
by admin | Mar 11, 2014 | Featured, Solidarity
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – One hundred members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) held a spirited protest at the Honduran Consulate this morning in San Francisco to support Honduran port workers who are suffering human rights violations and retaliation...
by admin | Mar 6, 2014 | Featured, February 2014 Dispatcher, Fighting for Good Jobs
“One-to-one, worker-to-worker – that’s a big part of how we organize in the ILWU.” explained Wesley Furtado, International Vice President (Hawaii). This approach has worked for our Union over the years, including 2013 when over 500 new members were brought into Local...
by admin | Mar 6, 2014 | Featured, February 2014 Dispatcher, Fighting for Good Jobs
With the current Longshore and Clerks’ Contract expiring just four months from now on midnight of June 30, 2014, the Coast Longshore Division Caucus began two weeks of meetings on February 24 that will establish member-based priorities for the new contract...
