by admin | Jul 29, 2011 | Dispatcher, Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs, July/August 2011 Dispatcher
ILWU Local 21 members at the Port of Longview have gained coast- wise solidarity as they’ve raised the stakes in the ongoing dispute with EGT Development, a multinational grain exporter who is trying to interfere with longtime union jurisdiction that’s made the...
by admin | Jul 26, 2011 | Featured, July/August 2011 Dispatcher
ILWU members and their families up and down the West Coast gathered to remember “Bloody Thursday” and the martyrs of the 1934 West Coast Waterfront strike, a struggle that would give birth to the ILWU and radically improve wages and working conditions for dock-...
by admin | Jul 25, 2011 | Dispatcher, Featured, July/August 2011 Dispatcher
Late in the morning on June 30th, operations were moving along as usual at Georgia-Pacific’s Kelly Point warehouse at the Port of Portland. Forklift drivers were moving loads of paper products at a brisk pace inside the warehouse, while the parking lot and loading...
by admin | Jul 24, 2011 | July/August 2011 Dispatcher
Rite Aid workers from seven states converged on the company’s annual shareholder meeting in Harris- burg, PA on June 23 to oppose management’s plan that would force employees to pay more for their health care – and show support for a 15-week “unfair labor practice”...
by admin | Jul 23, 2011 | Fighting for Good Jobs
The ILWU, which has a contract with the port and has been recognized as the sole supplier of longshore labor at West Coast ports, is protesting EGT Development’s agreement to use the International Union of Operating Engineers to operate the terminal. An ILWU...
