by admin | Sep 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
Senior citizen woman sitting on tracks treated abusively by police in riot gear; longshore member who tried to help her is pepper-sprayed while handcuffed LONGVIEW, WA [September 21, 2011] — Dan Coffman, President of ILWU Local 21, two longshore officers and...
by admin | Sep 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
BERKELEY, CA Four-hundred workers at the Bayer Pharmaceutical plant in Berkeley, California are asking the company to honor promises made two years ago when executives accepted taxpayer subsidies in exchange for providing good-paying jobs. Workers have been talking...
by admin | Sep 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
Cowlitz County sheriff continues traumatizing union members’ families with “made for TV” arrests LONGVIEW, WA (September 18, 2011) — Cowlitz County Sheriff Mark Nelson on Friday rejected the peaceful surrender of 200 union longshore workers who...
by admin | Sep 9, 2011 | Uncategorized
The International Longshoremen’s Association, AFL-CIO joins in solidarity with our Sisters and Brothers of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union in condemning the attack by police in riot gear on hundreds of ILWU member-protesters in Washington State...
by admin | Sep 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
Hundreds of port workers stood on railroad tracks today at 4pm, blocking a train carrying grain to a foreign-owned loading facility in Longview, Washington. Workers took action to protest the failure by big grain companies to honor agreements with the local...
by admin | Jun 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
While the official unemployment rate hovers at 9 percent—which doesn’t include workers who are working part-time or have dropped out of the job market entirely—other workers are being squeezed to work harder, longer and faster. It’s no wonder corporate profits are up...
