ILWU

  • Supply Chain Workers Test Strength of Links
    Jane Slaughter
    Mar 29 2012 - 1:00pm

    Workers in the nation’s sprawling distribution network hold enormous potential power. Today warehouse workers are organizing in three hubs: the “Inland Empire” east of LA, a giant complex near Chicago, and the centers along the Jersey Turnpike.

  • Why the Millionaires Tax Was Worth Fighting For

    The tax compromise made by the California Federation of Teachers resulted in major improvements to the ballot initiative that could be in front of voters in November. But there are compelling reasons why proponents of the millionaires tax should have bucked the governor's deal and continued their struggle to reverse endless austerity.

  • Workerless Docks? Automation Threatens Union Power
    Mark Brenner
    Mar 9 2012 - 6:03pm

    Arrests and train blockades may have grabbed the headlines, but automation was at the heart of the year-long conflict between the West Coast Longshore Union (ILWU) and grain terminal operator EGT.

  • Getting Members Involved in Occupy’s Next Phase
    Joe Berry and Helena Worthen
    Feb 29 2012 - 9:53am

    The idea that the 99% can actually stand up to the 1% is contagious. How can stewards build on this moment of opportunity? Several unions are drawing members into home defense actions.

  • ILWU Takes Risks, Breaks Rules, Gets Deal with Grain Company
    Jane Slaughter
    Feb 16 2012 - 10:31am

    Ending the most heated conflict labor has seen in years, the Longshore Union (ILWU) and transnational grain exporter EGT announced they had reached a deal. The union's path there was filled with risks.

  • Longshore Union Settles Grain Dispute as Confrontation Loomed
    Jane Slaughter
    Jan 26 2012 - 6:11pm

    The Longshore Workers released Friday some facets of its settlement with grain exporter EGT in Longview, Washington. After a card check, the union expects to negotiate a contract.

  • Longshore Union, Occupy Poised to Greet Grain Ship
    Eduardo Soriano-Castillo
    Jan 23 2012 - 10:03am

    Conflict is looming over a grain exporter's attempt to use scab labor to load a freighter in Longview, Washington. Occupiers and Longshore unionists vow to protest and expect a heavily armed police presence. Their own friction is adding difficulties, however.

  • Contracts Are Worth Defending, Even with No-Strike Clauses
    Guillermo Perez
    Jan 19 2012 - 1:51pm
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    After seeing hundreds of thousands of people demonstrate in Wisconsin and Ohio to defend collective bargaining, it seems odd to read in Labor Notes that union contracts are “a trap” that “hold unions back.”

    Stanley Aronowitz’s January 2012 Viewpoint said, “Labor is confined by contract unionism, whose core is the no-strike clause.”

  • Occupy Wake-Up Call Caps Remarkable Year
    Jane Slaughter
    Dec 30 2011 - 8:42am

    It’s been an exhilarating year, with people finally moving into resistance after decades of misrule. The new-found energy is rejuvenating, making it easy to forget that we haven’t won most of these battles yet. Still, we’re way ahead of where we were this time last year.

  • No-Strike Clauses Hold Back Unions
    Stanley Aronowitz
    Dec 15 2011 - 12:24pm
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    When leaders of the Occupy movement’s most reliable labor ally, the Longshore Union (ILWU), declared the union would not participate in Monday’s shutdown of West Coast ports, they illustrated a great weakness plaguing our unions.