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...
by admin | Mar 5, 2014 | Featured, Solidarity, Uncategorized
PORTLAND, OR (MARCH 4, 2014) – On March 4, Central American port workers from the labor union Sindicato Gremial de Trabajadores del Muelle (SGTM) from Puerto Cortés in Honduras established a picket line in front of ICTSI’s Oregon’soperation at Terminal 6 in...
by admin | Feb 4, 2014 | Helping Our Community, January 2014 Dispatcher
Year after year, up and down the coast, ILWU members, pensioners and auxiliary clubs organize toy drives and donate their time and money to local charity groups who are helping to brighten the holiday for those who have fallen on tough times. Thousands of families...
by admin | Feb 4, 2014 | Featured, January 2014 Dispatcher, Solidarity
International Container Terminal Services Incorporated (ICTSI) – the rogue employer responsible for flagrant contract violations at the Port of Portland – is now expanding operations in Central America where murder, military repression, death threats and anti-union...
by admin | Jan 2, 2014 | Decemember 2013 Dispatcher, Events, Featured, Solidarity
Nelson Mandela, the first Black president of South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize winner, former political prisoner and leader of the African National Congress who became a world-wide symbol in the struggle against apartheid passed away on December 5th at the age of...
by admin | Jan 2, 2014 | Decemember 2013 Dispatcher, Featured, Remembering Our History
One-hundred and twenty lucky ILWU Longshore Division members attended an intensive 6-day “History and Traditions Conference” in San Francisco on December 1-6. The event was planned by the ILWU Coast Longshore Division’s Education Committee and featured a host...
by admin | Dec 21, 2013 | Decemember 2013 Dispatcher
On December 12, Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber announced that all work associated with maintaining refrigerated containers at the Port of Portland, Terminal 6, will be assigned to workers represented by ILWU Locals 8 and 40. Prior to the announcement, a small portion...
