ILWU

  • Steward's Corner: Remember the Past, and Use It
    Craig Merrilees, Gillian Furst
    Nov 20 2009 - 6:01pm
    In San Francisco in 1934, heavily armed police and company thugs attacked striking maritime workers on the waterfront. The massive funeral procession that followed won public support and inspired workers—including Teamsters members who overruled their president to support a general strike that lasted several days, and spread fear among civic leaders, business owners, and politicians.
  • Rite Aid Campaign ‘Poster Child’ for Faltering Employee Free Choice Act

    Author(s):
    Jennifer Sargent

    Excerpt:
    As debates behind closed doors in Congress look to compromise the Employee Free Choice Act, a years-long fight to organize a million-square-foot warehouse in California makes clear that in today's workplace battlegrounds, half-measures aren't going to restore workers’ freedom to join a union. . . .

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  • Not Quite Quiet on the Waterfront

    Author(s):
    Marsha Niemeijer

    Excerpt:
    Longshore workers will consider a contract offer in mid-August, signaling the end of two weeks of job actions that slowed work at some West Coast ports. . . .

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  • Viewpoint: Workplace Power: It’s Skill that Gives Workers Clout on the Job

    Author(s):
    Mike Parker

    Excerpt:
    Power in the workplace itself. That is the underlying issue in the West Coast longshore struggle and facing most other unions across the world. Unfortunately, unions don’t like to talk about their members having power; they fear that power plays negatively in the media, so they paint a picture of “workers as victims” instead...

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  • Viewpoint: Unity Is Achieved by Confronting Differences, Not Avoiding Them

    Author(s):
    Paul Bigman, Lynne Dodson, Mary Ann Schroeder, and Lonnie Nelson

    Excerpt:
    While we certainly agree that labor must continue our coalition work on globalization, we have concerns with some of the views in Russ Davis’s April Viewpoint...

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  • Eleventh Labor Notes Conference Reflects Struggle And Change Across The Country & Around The World

    Author(s):
    Kim Moody

    Excerpt:
    Hundreds of chanting demonstrators marched through the streets of downtown Detroit at mid-day April 21 to protest the Free Trade Area of the Americas being negotiated and protested in Quebec City.
    The demonstration in solidarity with events in Quebec and in cooperation with similar groups in Windsor, Ontario was part of the eleventh biennial Labor Notes conference. Co-sponsored by Labor Notes, Jobs with Justice, the Committee for the Political Resurrection of Detroit, the Alliance for Democracy, and other local organizations, the demonstration helped set the tone and provide the energy for the weekend conference.

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