by admin | Sep 8, 2011 | Featured, Solidarity
8 September 2011: The ITF has condemned the detention yesterday of ILWU (International Longshore and Warehouse Union) president Bob McEllrath while attending a protest in Vancouver, Washington, USA. He and other ILWU members were defending the job rights of workers...
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 | Aug 8, 2011 | Featured
On Friday, August 5, hundreds of Longshore workers from Longview, Portland and Vancouver hand-delivered copies of the following letter to members of Operating Engineers Local 701 at the OE union hall in Gladstone, Oregon: Dear Brothers and Sisters of IUOE Local 701,...
by admin | Jul 29, 2011 | Dispatcher, Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs, July/August 2011 Dispatcher
ILWU Local 21 members at the Port of Longview have gained coast- wise solidarity as they’ve raised the stakes in the ongoing dispute with EGT Development, a multinational grain exporter who is trying to interfere with longtime union jurisdiction that’s made the...
