by admin | Apr 2, 2014 | March 2014 Dispatcher, Solidarity
Delegates who attended the Coast Longshore Division Caucus in San Francisco last month, provided a warm embrace to Honduran dock union leader Victor Crespo and two co-workers who addressed the Caucus on March 4. Delegates pledged their solidarity and unanimously voted...
by admin | Mar 11, 2014 | Featured, Solidarity
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – One hundred members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) held a spirited protest at the Honduran Consulate this morning in San Francisco to support Honduran port workers who are suffering human rights violations and retaliation...
by admin | Mar 5, 2014 | Featured, Solidarity, Uncategorized
PORTLAND, OR (MARCH 4, 2014) – On March 4, Central American port workers from the labor union Sindicato Gremial de Trabajadores del Muelle (SGTM) from Puerto Cortés in Honduras established a picket line in front of ICTSI’s Oregon’soperation at Terminal 6 in...
by admin | Feb 4, 2014 | Featured, January 2014 Dispatcher, Solidarity
International Container Terminal Services Incorporated (ICTSI) – the rogue employer responsible for flagrant contract violations at the Port of Portland – is now expanding operations in Central America where murder, military repression, death threats and anti-union...
by admin | Jan 2, 2014 | Decemember 2013 Dispatcher, Events, Featured, Solidarity
Nelson Mandela, the first Black president of South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize winner, former political prisoner and leader of the African National Congress who became a world-wide symbol in the struggle against apartheid passed away on December 5th at the age of...
by admin | Oct 1, 2013 | October 2013 Dispatcher, Solidarity
Hundreds of Southern California ILWU members joined with thousands Southern California workers and their families to celebrate Labor Day at the 34th annual Labor Solidarity March and Picnic in the working class city of Wilmington, CA. Over three dozen unions from all...