by admin | Oct 3, 2014 | Featured, September 2014 Dispatcher, Solidarity
The campaign by East Bay recycling workers for dramatic wage and benefit improvements continued to make progress in September. Oakland Council OK’s raises On September 22, the Oakland City Council adjusted their future franchise agreements so that two firms will share...
by admin | Jul 16, 2014 | Featured, Solidarity
Twenty-one crewmembers serving on the Liberian-flagged vessel Vega-Reederei have organized a picket line at the Port of Long Beach, CA, to protest their employer’s failure to pay workers for up to four months of back wages. Abuses of seafaring crew are common in the...
by admin | Jun 25, 2014 | Featured, June 2014 Dispatcher, Solidarity
The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) is working closely with the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), the ILWU and other allies on a global education campaign to show why Chevron – not workers – is responsible for bloated budgets and growing delays on a...
by admin | May 23, 2014 | Featured, May 2014 Dispatcher, Solidarity
A solidarity delegation of members from ILWU Locals 10 and 13 joined the ILWU Longshore Locals from the Pacific Northwest in Portland and Vancouver, WA the weekend of May 3rd to walk the picket line with locked-out members of Locals 4 and 8 who are in a protracted...
by admin | May 2, 2014 | April 2014 Dispatcher, Featured, Solidarity
Labor contractors on the docks in Buenaventura, the largest port in Colombia, pay $200 for two weeks work loading and unloading ships. They don’t pay cash. On payday, longshoremen have to go to a loanshark, and borrow against the promise of a paycheck, but for...
by admin | Apr 2, 2014 | Featured, March 2014 Dispatcher, Solidarity
The ILWU joined other members of International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) on March 20th who organized a protest and negotiating session at the Honduran Embassy in London. “We gathered in London for the ITF Dockers Section meeting to discuss important issues...
