by admin | Nov 22, 2011 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs, November 2011 Dispatcher
The ILWU is taking steps to safeguard dockworkers and the public from thousands of potentially explosive refrigerated shipping containers that have been arriving from overseas ports. Killings spark company report The ILWU first learned about the hazard on October 20....
by admin | Nov 9, 2011 | Featured
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (NOVEMBER 9, 2011) – The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) has announced to its members at 30 West Coast ports the results of an arbitration hearing in which safety procedures designed to protect dockworkers and the public from...
by admin | Oct 19, 2011 | Helping Our Community, October 2011 Dispatcher
The problem of air pollution around the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach generated a standing-room-only crowd at a community forum that was held in Paramount on October 6. ILWU Coast Safety Committee Chair Tim Podue and Local 13 volunteer Donovan Russell attended...
by admin | Jan 12, 2011 | Allies
A recent study of the U.S. port trucking industry finds that the nation’s 110,000 port truck drivers, who move millions of cargo containers annually from port cities to store shelves across the country, are highly vulnerable to illegal employment classification...
by admin | Dec 16, 2010 | December 2010 Dispatcher, Fighting for Good Jobs
Families living around Tesoro’s refinery in Wilmington, CA attended a community forum on Friday, November 19th sponsored by the ILWU and other groups. Concerned residents came to the Banning Community Center at noon where they learned some history about dangerous...
