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...
by admin | Mar 8, 2013 | In the News
Within a week of November’s hard-fought elections, the AFL-CIO and many of its member unions had already started a new campaign. It wasn’t linked to the 2016 presidential race, or any election. It was a campaign to make sure that the politicians whom labor unions had...
by admin | Mar 8, 2013 | In the News
From the International Transport Workers’ Federation: The ITF is keeping the vessel Long Beach under observation after it reportedly loaded at the Mitsui-UGC terminal at the port of Vancouver, Washington State, USA, where unionised dock workers are currently locked...
by admin | Mar 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
Still reeling from last month’s court ruling that the environmental study is not flawed, the Longshoremen’s Union will appeal. At a news briefing on Tuesday, aside the Longshoremen’s Union, Seattle Mayoral candidate Steinbrueck slammed the study. “In short, the study...
by admin | Mar 7, 2013 | In the News
Alleging unpaid wages and repeated retaliation, McDonald’s workers in central Pennsylvania launched a surprise strike at 11 this morning. The strikers are student guest workers from Latin America and Asia, brought to the United States under the controversial J-1...
by admin | Mar 6, 2013 | February 2013 Dispatcher
On February 8th, over 40 people gathered at HS Lordship’s Restaurant, in the Berkeley Marina for a surprise birthday party for Captain Josh Williams of the Local 10 drill team who turned 80 years old. The event was well attended by members of the ILWU family including...
by admin | Mar 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
Union head says Mitsui is ‘profiting from the United States’ infrastructure, natural resources and labor’ yet breaking U.S. law with its lockout VANCOUVER, WA (MARCH 5, 2013) – The International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Local 4 has filed an Unfair Labor...
