ILWU

ILWU clerical workers shut down Port of Los Angeles

Dec. 5 update: Members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 63 won a tentative agreement. Dec. 2…

December 5, 2012

Workers shut down Port of Oakland

‘We are determined to get a fair contract’ Oakland, Calif. — “Picket line means don’t cross,” chanted striking Service Employees Local…

December 2, 2012

Grain Handlers to lock out longshore workers

  This lightly edited article was written for the Port Workers United newsletter in Oakland, Calif. Thomas is a third-generation…

October 18, 2012

Longshore struggles continue as ‘poor go hungry’

Angry longshore workers walked off the job Sept. 28 in ports up and down the West Coast protesting news that…

October 6, 2012