by admin | Feb 11, 2011 | February 2011 Dispatcher, Solidarity
Workers in Egypt have played a decisive and under-reported role in helping topple Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak. Union members in textile plants, post offices, sanitation services and the Suez Canal organized job actions across the country on February 9th –...
by admin | Jan 28, 2011 | Allies, Solidarity
Manny Armenta, a sub-district director for the United Steelworkers (USW) in Albuquerque, NM, was arrested on January 24, while on his way to meet with attorneys for the Mexican mineworkers’ union, Los Mineros. The USW has been supporting the mineworkers who...
by admin | Jan 26, 2011 | Solidarity
Representatives of the ICEM (International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers’ Unions) are meeting this week in San Francisco, CA at an event hosted by the ILWU. The ICEM is a global federation of trade unions representing composed of 467...
by admin | Dec 16, 2010 | December 2010 Dispatcher, Solidarity
ILWU members have some experience with employer lockouts, including the 10-day Longshore lockout in 2002 and the 104-day lockout by Rio Tinto against the families in Boron. But a lockout that lasts 9 months is different, which is the challenge facing dozens of workers...
by admin | Dec 16, 2010 | December 2010 Dispatcher, Solidarity
As many as 300 jobs that supported union families for 22 years in the Philadelphia area suddenly disappeared last summer when Fresh Del Monte Produce stopped using ILA union workers to unload pineapples, bananas and other fresh fruit at a New Jersey port across from...
by admin | Dec 16, 2010 | December 2010 Dispatcher, Solidarity
Leading international mining and maritime unions representing millions of workers around the world met in Auckland, New Zealand in early November to plan for the Mining and Maritime Initiatives international conference next year in Durban, South Africa. They discussed...
