by Roy San Filippo | Dec 23, 2024 | Featured, Organizing
Featured Organizing Looking Back, Looking Forward: Local 5’s 2024 Organizing campaigns Local 5 saw great success in new organizing this year; as they prepare for continued success in 2025 A spectre is haunting the bosses of Portland – the spectre of workers...
by Roy San Filippo | Jun 1, 2024 | Featured, Organizing
Featured Organizing Alcatraz City Cruises workers strike Four-hour Unfair Labor Practices strike underscores worker frustration with ‘employer stalling tactics’ Workers at Alcatraz Cruises represented by the Inlandboatmen’s Union of the Pacific (IBU), the Marine...
by Roy San Filippo | Apr 8, 2024 | Featured, Organizing
Featured Organizing Four Seasons warehouse workers sworn in as members of Local 29-A after ratifying first contract Substantial gains won after three-year organizing battle, help and solidarity from ILWU members across Southern California Five new members of ILWU...
by admin | Jun 20, 2022 | Featured, Organizing
Featured Organizing Always Bargain Collectively: Portland preschool teachers and the ABC’s of worker power Workers everywhere are coming together to form unions. From Amazon to Starbucks workers, the news is full of newly minted unions, sometimes working with...
by admin | Jan 5, 2022 | Featured, Organizing
Featured Organizing ILWU members at OIA Global ratify first contract Members of ILWU Local 63 OCU unanimously ratified their first collective bargaining agreement with OIA Global (OIA) on December 3rd. This is the first-ever freight forwarding company be unionized....
by admin | Nov 8, 2021 | Featured, Organizing
Featured Organizing Roll Call: Wild Lilac teachers present and ready to bargain As the pandemic drags on, most “frontline”/“essential”/”hero” workers can easily agree on at least one thing: it’s been a difficult slog. The teachers and support staff of preschools...