by admin | Jul 24, 2010 | July 2010 Dispatcher, Remembering Our History
Hundreds of ILWU members and families marched on June 19th in Vancouver, Canada to honor the 75th anniversary of a valiant battle by 5,000 longshore workers who were attacked with tear gas and beaten by police on horseback at the Ballantyne docks in 1935. A monument...
by admin | Jul 20, 2010 | Fighting for Good Jobs, July 2010 Dispatcher
When dozens of Local 13A members (the “A” is for Allied Division) lost their jobs in May as “coke cutters” at the Tesoro Refinery near the Port of Los Angeles, Local 13 leaders and members jumped into action. They helped organize a labor-community coalition meeting,...
by admin | Jul 20, 2010 | Fighting for Good Jobs, July 2010 Dispatcher
Summer temperatures in the Mojave Desert surrounding Rite Aid’s distribution Center in Lancaster, California are already hotter than 100 degrees, but workers there are turning up the heat on management to negotiate a first contract that’s fair. Contract talks with...
by admin | Jul 20, 2010 | July 2010 Dispatcher, Remembering Our History
Bloody Thursday is more than a memorial to those who gave their lives in the 1934 maritime strike. Bloody Thursday is also a celebration of the victory of that strike. It’s a celebration of all that has come to pass as a result of the sacrifice of men like Nicholas...
by admin | Jun 25, 2010 | Fighting for Good Jobs, July 2010 Dispatcher
Vincent Atos is a low-key, friendly guy who never concealed the fact that he was gay and a supporter of the union. During his six years as a deckhand with the Blue & Gold Fleet, and three on Hornblower’s Alcatraz run, his co-workers never seemed to mind his “gay”...
