by admin | Apr 5, 2013 | In the News
Liberals are mounting strong criticisms of President Obama amid news that his budget will include a Social Security benefit cut — an official endorsement of a policy compromise he’s offered Republicans for years — and warning Democrats not to dare vote to cut the...
by admin | Apr 4, 2013 | Featured, Solidarity
Striking Hong Kong dockworkers remain steadfast in their weeklong strike for fair wages and safe working conditions. The job action is slowing cargo shipments at the world’s third busiest port. Hundreds dockworkers and community supporters have been camped out...
by admin | Apr 2, 2013 | Featured, March 2013 Dispatcher
Office clerical workers at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach ratified a new contract in late February that covers 450 members of Local 63’s Office Clerical Unit (OCU). The workers won their contract after striking for 8 days from November 27 to December 4, 2012...
by admin | Apr 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
Two hundred Local 6 members went on strike at three Waste Management facilities during the early morning hours of March 15, shutting-down the company’s East Bay operations for six hours. Members organized multiple picket lines beginning at 2am in three locations: the...
by admin | Apr 1, 2013 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs, March 2013 Dispatcher
Hundreds of ILWU members and supporters marched and rallied in Vancouver, Washington, on March 8 to protest the lockout of ILWU Local 4 workers at the port’s grain export terminal operated by Mitsui-United Grain. The Japanese-owned company initiated the illegal...
by admin | Mar 18, 2013 | Featured
Hundreds of Waste Management workers belonging to the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) struck three facilities Friday morning, March 15, shutting down the company’s East Bay operation in for five hours. The successful job action was made possible by...
by admin | Mar 12, 2013 | Helping Our Community
British Columbia – Members from Local 502 made a generous donation to the Surrey Food Bank with a food donation of over 980 pounds and and $1600 . Their next fundraiser, for the Vancouver Children’s Hospital, also kicked off in March. The yearly event...
by admin | Mar 11, 2013 | In the News
from the Columbian: Several hundred people rallied Friday morning at Esther Short Park to support the 44 members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union who are locked out from work at the United Grain export terminal at the Port of Vancouver. The Friday...
by admin | Mar 10, 2013 | In the News
Labor’s Turnaround The AFL-CIO has a plan to save the movement. BY David Moberg The mood at the meeting, one AFL-CIO top staffer said, was that the future of the labor movement was at risk if they continued “business as usual.” As I waited outside the AFL-CIO’s...
by admin | Mar 9, 2013 | In the News
March 1, 2013 — Leslie Moody Washington, D.C. is so stalled with fiscal crises and gridlock that reformers may find more success at City Hall than in the nation’s Capitol. Case in point: climate change. While many were cheered by its prominence in President...
