by admin | Apr 26, 2011 | Political Action
In a 1936 speech, President Franklin Roosevelt denounced the attempts by employers to coerce workers into voting for a candidate by threatening their jobs. That tactic is what the Koch Brothers have been accused of doing in a recent article published in The Nation by...
by admin | Apr 20, 2011 | April 2011 Dispatcher, Featured, Pensioners, Political Action
During the week of March 13, ILWU members from the longshore division, Local 142, Hawaii Longshore Division, Alaska Longshore Division, IBU, and pensioners gathered in Washington, D.C. to fight for issues of importance to ILWU members and all American workers. The...
by admin | Mar 8, 2011 | Political Action
Several mean-spirited bills designed to scapegoat ferry workers have been introduced by both Republicans and Democrats in the Legislature. It seems as if some Washington lawmakers are in league with their GOP counterparts in Wisconsin. Sens. Mary Margaret Haugen...
by admin | Jan 20, 2011 | Featured, January 2011 Dispatcher, Political Action
As we enter 2011, the Dispatcher takes a look back at some of the accomplishments and struggles that ILWU members faced in 2010. Breaking the lockout in Boron One of the largest mining companies in the world – Rio Tinto – tried to take out ILWU Local 30 members last...
by admin | Jan 11, 2011 | January 2011 Dispatcher, Political Action
Later this month, President Obama is expected to send the Korea-United States Free Trade Agreement to Congress for ratification. Business leaders are hailing the move as step towards greater bi-partisanship, which these days means Democrats stepping across the aisle...
by admin | Dec 19, 2010 | December 2010 Dispatcher, Pensioners, Political Action
The October issue of the Dispatcher reported that the ILWU Pacific Pensioners Association was sounding the alarm about a potential attack on Social Security by President Obama’s bipartisan Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform which was created to propose ways to...
