by admin | Feb 14, 2012 | Events
TheLabor Archives and Research Center will celebrate its 26th anniversary with a program focusing on the work of noted historian Allan Bérubé. Bérubé wrote the groundbreaking book “Coming Out Under Fire: Gays in the Military During World War II” and did extensive...
by admin | Feb 10, 2012 | Featured
Longview, Washington – Today representatives from EGT, LLC and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) signed a collective bargaining agreement covering landside and shipside operations at EGT’s grain terminal at the Port of Longview. The agreement,...
by admin | Feb 6, 2012 | Featured
Longview, Washington – Today officials from EGT, LLC and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) announced the scheduled arrival of the first export vessel at the EGT terminal on Tuesday, February 7. The ship’s arrival is an important milestone in the...
by admin | Feb 2, 2012 | Featured, Solidarity
LONGVIEW, WA (February 2, 1012) — ILWU leaders today said that the county prosecutors’ office needs to stop wasting taxpayer dollars attempting to prosecute local workers and their supporters for exercising their First Amendment rights during a labor...
by admin | Feb 2, 2012 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs
LONGVIEW, WA (February 2, 2012) – On Wednesday, EGT voluntarily recognized International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 21 as the bargaining representative for its grain handler employees on the vessel and in its facility in the Port of Longview. On Monday and...
by admin | Jan 27, 2012 | Fighting for Good Jobs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 27, 2012 CONTACT: Jennifer Sargent, 503-703-2933 LONGVIEW, WA (January 27, 2012) — Today, the Port of Longview approved a settlement agreement with EGT and the ILWU settling unresolved legal issues between the parties. The...
by admin | Jan 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
LONGVIEW, WA (January 20, 2012) — The Cowlitz County Prosecuting Attorney dismissed trespassing and train obstruction charges against Longview longshore worker Darin Norton yesterday. Norton, a member of ILWU Local 21, had been charged with those two offenses as...
by admin | Jan 6, 2012 | December 2011 Dispatcher, Featured
IBU members hold the line against Georgia Pacific In our January issue, the Dispatcher reported on 80 Portland-area warehouse workers who were fighting for safe jobs, healthy families and retirement security. At that time, they had been bargaining for a fair...
by admin | Jan 6, 2012 | December 2011 Dispatcher, Helping Our Community
ILWU Local 13 members joined 200 other Southern California union members to raise $10,000 to help end homelessness for America’s veterans. The “Homeless Heroes Team,” sponsored by L.A. County Federation of Labor and Labor Community Services, AFL-CIO participated in...
by admin | Jan 6, 2012 | December 2011 Dispatcher, Featured
When we take our garbage and recycling to the curb, most of us give little thought to what happens next. Two hundred ILWU members in the Bay Area waste industry are mobilizing to change that by making the public more aware – and their employer more accountable for the...
