by admin | Nov 19, 2011 | Featured, November 2011 Dispatcher, Pensioners
The PCPA convention was a huge success. Although the turnout was good, more pensioners should have attended. At the PCPA Executive Board meeting that preceded the convention there was discussion relating to the lack of membership diversity. There is a real...
by admin | Nov 19, 2011 | November 2011 Dispatcher
After attending the ILWU’s Leadership, Education and Development Institute (LEAD) last September, Leslie Lincoln, chairwomen of American Radio Association’s (ARA) Education Committee, developed a survey to obtain feedback from members on courses that the ARA could...
by admin | Oct 24, 2011 | October 2011 Dispatcher
Few labor struggles at home or abroad are being won quickly or easily today. Members of the Mexican Electrical Workers union (SME) proved that point by declaring victory after a difficult two-year fight that pitted their militant union against Mexico’s anti-labor...
by admin | Oct 21, 2011 | Featured, October 2011 Dispatcher, Pensioners
The banner of the Pacific Coast Pensioners Association reads: “Retired from the job…not from the struggle.” That same working class ideology was on display during the PCPA Convention from September 19 – 21, 2011 in Seattle, WA. Pensioners from up and down the...
by admin | Oct 19, 2011 | Featured, October 2011 Dispatcher
Enraged shouts broke the silence outside Georgia- Pacific’s Kelly Point warehouse facility in Portland on the afternoon of September 9th when workers halted operations and called a strike to protest unfair labor practices. “They want to cut just about everything you...
by admin | Oct 19, 2011 | October 2011 Dispatcher, Remembering Our History
On October 8, Southwestern Oregon Community College (SWOCC) in Coos Bay dedicated its campus quad to Henry Hansen, the founder of the college, a longshoreman and the first Vice President of ILWU Local 12. The quad, named “Henry Hansen Labor Union Square,” will...