by admin | Jan 13, 2017 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs, January 2017
As the Dispatcher was going to press in Late December, tugboat crews at Foss Maritime Long Beach were trying to renew a contract that expired six months ago on June 30, 2016. “It’s not unusual for negotiations to continue after a contract expires, but the refusal by...
by admin | Jan 13, 2017 | Featured, Helping Our Community, January 2017
Members of ILWU Canada are continuing to help other workers – and themselves – by fighting to save good jobs in the maritime industry through an ongoing series of protests and public actions. Another “free trade” deal Last November, they joined a coalition that...
by admin | Jan 12, 2017 | Featured, January 2017, Solidarity
On December 6, the ILWU International Executive Board voted unanimously to adopt a statement of policy opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). The controversial project is opposed by Native Americans across the continent because it threatens Native lands and...
by admin | Nov 17, 2016 | Dispatcher December 2016, Featured
Donald Trump stunned the political establishment on November 8 with a knockout blow to conventional wisdom and corporate liberalism, delivered by angry working-class voters. “America’s working class has been frozen out or falling behind for three decades while...
by admin | Oct 19, 2016 | Featured, November 2016 Dispatcher, Political Action
The ILWU Puget Sound District Council and Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies sponsored a September 21showing of the new film called “Fix It: Health Care at the Tipping Point.” The one-hour documentary explains why America’s patchwork of government- funded,...
by admin | Oct 7, 2016 | Dispatcher October 2016, Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs
JBA Transport workers who haul petroleum coke from California oil refineries to storage facilities and docks voted overwhelmingly to join the ILWU on September 1. Teamster-company deal rejected In the same vote, workers soundly rejected a representation bid from the...
