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...
