by admin | Mar 1, 2012 | Featured, February 2012 Dispatcher
Email messages show awareness that Prosecuting Attorney Susan Baur was overreaching her role; Chief Criminal Deputy Charlie Rosenzweig acknowledged that treatment of ILWU members was “much more affirmative” and “intentional” than standard procedure LONGVIEW, WA...
by admin | Feb 22, 2012 | Dispatcher, January 2012 Dispatcher, Solidarity
Australian dock workers in the ports of Adelaide and Melbourne returned to work after a negotiated ceasefire between workers belonging to the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) and terminal operator, Dubai Ports World (DP World). A series of job actions and retaliatory...
by admin | Jan 6, 2012 | December 2011 Dispatcher, Featured
IBU members hold the line against Georgia Pacific In our January issue, the Dispatcher reported on 80 Portland-area warehouse workers who were fighting for safe jobs, healthy families and retirement security. At that time, they had been bargaining for a fair...
by admin | Jan 6, 2012 | December 2011 Dispatcher, Helping Our Community
ILWU Local 13 members joined 200 other Southern California union members to raise $10,000 to help end homelessness for America’s veterans. The “Homeless Heroes Team,” sponsored by L.A. County Federation of Labor and Labor Community Services, AFL-CIO participated in...
by admin | Jan 6, 2012 | December 2011 Dispatcher, Featured
When we take our garbage and recycling to the curb, most of us give little thought to what happens next. Two hundred ILWU members in the Bay Area waste industry are mobilizing to change that by making the public more aware – and their employer more accountable for the...
by admin | Nov 23, 2011 | November 2011 Dispatcher
On October 28th, The Golden Gate Bridge Labor Coalition, composed of 15 unions that represent workers on the Golden Gate Bridge, Golden Gate Ferry and Golden Gate Transit, held an informational picket outside of the Golden Gate Bridge District Board of Directors...