by admin | Jul 22, 2011 | Solidarity
The following report from Zenkoku-Kowan, the National Federation of Dockworkers’ Unions of Japan presented this report on the earthquake rescue and reconstruction efforts by Japanese dock workers to the ITF Dockers’ section meeting in Buenos Aires that...
by admin | Jul 15, 2011 | Fighting for Good Jobs
The biggest labor dispute in Washington state — spawning one of the more militant union campaigns in decades — is happening right now in Longview. About 100 union members were cited and arrested earlier this week, and yesterday hundreds more crowded onto railroad...
by admin | Jul 13, 2011 | Fighting for Good Jobs
ILWU members continued their protest of proposed hiring policies at the EGT grain terminal, demanding Tuesday at a Port of Longview commissioners’ meeting that union labor be used on all projects on port property. Dan Coffman, president of International Longshore and...
by admin | Jul 12, 2011 | Fighting for Good Jobs
About 100 union dock workers, including union leaders, were arrested Monday afternoon after they tore down a chain-link gate and protested inside the EGT grain terminal at the Port of Longview. In one of the boldest labor demonstrations in recent memory, members of...
by admin | Jun 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
While the official unemployment rate hovers at 9 percent—which doesn’t include workers who are working part-time or have dropped out of the job market entirely—other workers are being squeezed to work harder, longer and faster. It’s no wonder corporate profits are up...
by admin | Jun 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
ILWU pensioner, community and labor leader, and San Francisco Redevelopment Commissioner Leroy King was honored by over 200 people on May 17th. A bronze bust of King, sculpted by artist Dina Angel-Wing, was unveiled at the Jazz Heritage Center in San Francisco’s...
by admin | Jun 16, 2011 | June 2011 Dispatcher, Pensioners
Before John Eberhardt started jumping out of airplanes, he was working on the docks as a Local 13 member and later as a foreman with Local 94. Co-worker Manuel Cabrera got him to take his first jump on July 7, 2002 in the Mojave Desert town of California City – just...
by admin | Jun 16, 2011 | Featured, Helping Our Community, June 2011 Dispatcher
Within three years, container ships coming to California ports will be required to radically reduce emissions by turning-off dirty diesel power generators and plugging into electric shore power. The Port of Los Angeles led the way with this technology a decade ago,...
by admin | Jun 16, 2011 | Events, June 2011 Dispatcher, Uncategorized
Los Angeles/Long Beach is hosting a very big event with up to 5,000 expected. The picnic happens at Harry Bridges Memorial Park in Long Beach next to the Queen Mary. But the day actually begins at 9am when members gather at Roosevelt Park Cemetery in Gardena to honor...
by admin | Jun 13, 2011 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs, June 2011 Dispatcher, Take Action
A powerful show of solidarity from ILWU locals up and down the West Coast brought together 1,200 union members and allies who came to Portland for an important rally on June 3rd. The rally was called to protest a massive new grainhandling facility being built on the...
