by admin | Mar 5, 2013 | February 2013 Dispatcher, Solidarity
Dozens of workers at the Bay Area’s Castlewood Country Club approved a contract on February 13 with good job security, more affordable family health care, protections against subcontracting, strong seniority rights, raises, and a substantial signing bonus. The...
by admin | Mar 5, 2013 | February 2013 Dispatcher
Note: On Martin Luther King’s birthday, a community celebration has been held each year at the Local 6 hall in Oakland. This year, the event sponsors invited a recycling worker of address the large audience on January 21. The remarks below were written by recycling...
by admin | Mar 4, 2013 | February 2013 Dispatcher, Helping Our Community
ILWU Coast Committeeman, Ray Ortiz, Jr. joined former San Francisco Mayor and political heavy-hitter, Willie Brown, Jr., to support the Booker T. Washington Community Service Center on January 30th in San Francisco. Mayor Brown was honored at a fundraising event for...
by admin | Mar 4, 2013 | Featured, February 2013 Dispatcher
Recycling is supposed to be good and green, but there’s plenty that’s disturbing and dangerous about this fast-growing niche in the nation’s highly-profitable $55 billion-dollar waste industry. Most recycling workers suffer from poverty wages, meager benefits,...
by admin | Mar 4, 2013 | Events
In November 2012, when more than 100 garment workers in Bangladesh died in a raging factory fire, it raised pressing questions about corporate responsibility for the conditions of the factories that make their products. Next week on Friday, March 8, 2013 the...
by admin | Feb 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
Leaders say company has not shown evidence to back its accusations, and that security guards have been ‘shadowing and harassing our members every day’ PORTLAND, OR (February 28, 2013) – The men and women of ILWU Local 4, who have been working to reach a fair agreement...
by admin | Feb 27, 2013 | Uncategorized
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Locals 23, 21, 19, 8 and 4 and U.S.-based grain company TEMCO, LLC today jointly announced that they have respectively ratified a 5-year interim collective bargaining agreement covering three TEMCO grain export...
by admin | Jan 31, 2013 | In the News
LANSING, Mich. – The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan and a coalition of labor unions asked a judge today to strike down the recently passed right-to-work law because it was enacted while the public was locked out of the Capitol in violation of the Open...
by admin | Jan 31, 2013 | Events
Most of us don’t know what happens to our recycling after we take it to the curb each week. On Saturday February 2nd, hundreds of recycling workers will gather in Oakland to expose a host of serious problems to an audience of elected officials and policy makers who...
