by admin | Sep 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
by James Parks, Sep 27, 2011 Two years after being granted tax subsidies in exchange for creating family-supporting jobs, management at Bayer Pharmaceuticals in Berkeley, Calif., steadfastly refuses to keep its commitment. Instead, it wants to outsource work done by...
by admin | Sep 26, 2011 | Featured
Says sheriff should stop abusive arrests of union members and the purposeful waste of taxpayer dollars for show-of-force antics LONGVIEW, WA [September 26, 2011] – Robert McEllrath, President of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, added his voice to the...
by admin | Sep 22, 2011 | Featured
TACOMA, WA [September 22, 2011] – The International Longshore and Warehouse Union and ILWU Local 21 today responded to ongoing police brutality and harassment related to its labor dispute with EGT Development at the Port of Longview by filing a civil rights lawsuit...
by admin | Sep 22, 2011 | Featured, Uncategorized
Members of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) staged a solidartity rally in support of ILWU Local 21 members at the Townsville Port in front of a ship owned by STX Pan Ocean, part owner of EGT. From the MUA website: The Townsville community today rallied in support...
by admin | Sep 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
Yesterday’s overwhelming vote signals a looming crisis if Bayer refuses to address job retention concerns after taking tax subsidies BERKELEY, CA Workers at Bayer’s pharmaceutical plant in Berkeley cast ballots yesterday in an election that sent the company a...
by admin | Sep 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
Senior citizen woman sitting on tracks treated abusively by police in riot gear; longshore member who tried to help her is pepper-sprayed while handcuffed LONGVIEW, WA [September 21, 2011] — Dan Coffman, President of ILWU Local 21, two longshore officers and...
by admin | Sep 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
BERKELEY, CA Four-hundred workers at the Bayer Pharmaceutical plant in Berkeley, California are asking the company to honor promises made two years ago when executives accepted taxpayer subsidies in exchange for providing good-paying jobs. Workers have been talking...
by admin | Sep 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
Cowlitz County sheriff continues traumatizing union members’ families with “made for TV” arrests LONGVIEW, WA (September 18, 2011) — Cowlitz County Sheriff Mark Nelson on Friday rejected the peaceful surrender of 200 union longshore workers who...
by admin | Sep 16, 2011 | September 2011 Dispatcher
By Bob McEllrath, ILWU International President If you’re a regular reader of The Dispatcher, then you know I don’t write a column unless there’s something important. Now I’ve got some things that I’d like to share with you and other ILWU members. First, the decision...
by admin | Sep 16, 2011 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs, September 2011 Dispatcher
Hundreds of port workers and community supporters volunteered to stand in front of a train carrying grain to an outlaw loading facility in Longview, Washington on September 7th. Workers took action to protest the refusal by the big grain company, EGT, to honor...
