by admin | May 2, 2014 | April 2014 Dispatcher, Featured, Solidarity
Labor contractors on the docks in Buenaventura, the largest port in Colombia, pay $200 for two weeks work loading and unloading ships. They don’t pay cash. On payday, longshoremen have to go to a loanshark, and borrow against the promise of a paycheck, but for...
by admin | May 2, 2014 | April 2014 Dispatcher, Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs
Workers at the Delta Western Fuel Terminal, the largest in the remote Alaskan port of Dutch Harbor, voted to unionize in April through the ILWU’s marine division, the Inlandboatmen’s Union of the Pacific (IBU). Fuel for the “Deadliest Catch” Located on the rugged and...
