by admin | Dec 4, 2012 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs
For immediate release: LOS ANGELES, CA—Four hundred and fifty office clerical workers ended their one-week strike to secure good jobs for working families in the harbor community by winning new protections that will help prevent jobs from being outsourced to Texas,...
by admin | Sep 28, 2012 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs
Wheat-based bread on Japan’s dinner tables and soy-fed beef in China – These are just two of the rapidly growing trends that are making American and Canadian grain hot export commodities. Thanks to these and other favorable conditions, grain is the new gold for...
by admin | Sep 28, 2012 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs, September 2012 Dispatcher
In the June issue of the Dispatcher, we reported that the ILWU and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) had taken the extraordinary step of jointly suing a PMA-member company, ICTSI, for its continued refusal to comply with the Pacific Coast Longshore and Clerks’...
by admin | Aug 16, 2012 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs
PORTLAND, OR (August 16, 2012) — Today, the ILWU filed a federal lawsuit against the Port of Portland and Bill Wyatt, its Executive Director, for unlawfully gifting nearly $5 million in public funds to a private Philippines-based company, ICTSI Oregon, Inc., and...
by admin | Aug 8, 2012 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs, July/Aug 2012 Dispatcher
A large group of ILWU members and allies held a spirited protest outside the offices of “Clean Harbors Los Angeles” on Friday, July 20 to warn the public about the company’s questionable environmental and safety record. Local newspapers and television covered the...
by admin | Jul 19, 2012 | Fighting for Good Jobs, Uncategorized
Los Angeles – Community and labor groups will conduct a protest in front of a troubled firm known as “Clean Harbors Los Angeles” on Friday, July 20 at 10 AM at 18025 South Broadway in Gardena, California. Clean Harbors has been the subject of complaints by the...
