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...
by admin | Jan 31, 2013 | Featured
ILWU Local 13 has represented a dozen commercial fumigators in the Port of Los Angeles since 1990. These members fumigate the fruit that longshoreman discharge at SSAs berth 55 in San Pedro. Late in 2012 one of the members reported contract violations to the union and...
by admin | Jan 30, 2013 | January 2012 Dispatcher, Remembering Our History
Local 10 activist Leo Robinson passed away on January 14th at the age of 75, leaving behind a legacy of passionate advocacy for his union, for the working class, the struggle against racism and the battle to end Apartheid in South Africa.Robinson was outspoken and not...
by admin | Jan 30, 2013 | January 2013 Dispatcher, Solidarity
I recently went on a trip to Panama. Before leaving I remembered the Panama Canal Pilots had affiliated with the ILWU. Through friends at the longshore caucus, I made contact with ILWU Vice President Ray Familathe, who was able to get me in contact with a few of the...
by admin | Jan 30, 2013 | January 2013 Dispatcher
Local union officials have announced a membership ratification vote has been scheduled on Wednesday, February 6th for the tentative agreement reached following the 8-day strike that ended on December 4, 2012. The Dispatcher will report on the results in the next...
