by admin | Dec 28, 2010 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs
Irene Florez has posted an excellent interview with “Isabella,” an ILWU Local 6 member working at an Oakland recycling center. Isabella talks about her job, her union and the upcoming fight for a fair contract. Listen to the interview here.
by admin | Dec 28, 2010 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs
This action in Oakland was one of over 40 demonstrations that took place outside of Rite Aid retail drug stores across the country. Workers and community groups came out in solidarity with Rite Aid workers in Lancaster, CA, Cleveland OH, and Philadelphia, PA who are...
by admin | Dec 20, 2010 | December 2010 Dispatcher, Helping Our Community
For the past 13 years, Local 13’s Lisa Tonson has been coordinating the Thanksgiving turkey basket giveaway which benefits needy families throughout the Los Angeles area. This year the program was able to distribute 1,500 turkeys to families struggling in these tough...
by admin | Dec 19, 2010 | Remembering Our History
This is the third of a three-part series focusing on the recollections of ILWU leaders who made important contributions to the building of the union in Hawaii. It features Carl Damaso, a Filipino immigrant sugar worker whose struggles against the employers in the cane...
by admin | Dec 19, 2010 | December 2010 Dispatcher, Pensioners, Political Action
The October issue of the Dispatcher reported that the ILWU Pacific Pensioners Association was sounding the alarm about a potential attack on Social Security by President Obama’s bipartisan Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform which was created to propose ways to...
by admin | Dec 16, 2010 | December 2010 Dispatcher, Solidarity
ILWU members have some experience with employer lockouts, including the 10-day Longshore lockout in 2002 and the 104-day lockout by Rio Tinto against the families in Boron. But a lockout that lasts 9 months is different, which is the challenge facing dozens of workers...
by admin | Dec 16, 2010 | December 2010 Dispatcher, Solidarity
As many as 300 jobs that supported union families for 22 years in the Philadelphia area suddenly disappeared last summer when Fresh Del Monte Produce stopped using ILA union workers to unload pineapples, bananas and other fresh fruit at a New Jersey port across from...
by admin | Dec 16, 2010 | December 2010 Dispatcher, Fighting for Good Jobs
Families living around Tesoro’s refinery in Wilmington, CA attended a community forum on Friday, November 19th sponsored by the ILWU and other groups. Concerned residents came to the Banning Community Center at noon where they learned some history about dangerous...
by admin | Dec 16, 2010 | December 2010 Dispatcher, Solidarity
Leading international mining and maritime unions representing millions of workers around the world met in Auckland, New Zealand in early November to plan for the Mining and Maritime Initiatives international conference next year in Durban, South Africa. They discussed...
by admin | Dec 16, 2010 | December 2010 Dispatcher
The Southern California harbor area waterfront was changed forever during the early morning hours of November 4th when longshore worker Bert Tufele was killed on the job at the Stevedore Services of America (SSA) Marine Terminal on Pier A in Long Beach. He is believed...
