I had a post the other day on Trump destroying jobs for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), which is the longshoremen's union on the west coast. As I noted in that post, the ILWU has a long history of left activism AND union...
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Donald Trump remains fantastic for the working class! On many mornings, Sarah Esch’s job as a dispatcher for dockworkers at the Port of Seattle boils down to a question of.
On October 25, 1949, longshoremen in Hawaii won a 177 day strike that got them union recognition, the most important thing a newly organized set of workers can achieve. It.
On May 21, 1945, Hawaii passed the Hawaii Employee Relations Act, extending collective bargaining rights to agricultural workers. This critical expansion of the Wagner Act started laying the groundwork for including more workers under the umbrella of American labor law. It also helped bring in...
On November 17, 1946, Hawaiian sugar workers organizing with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union ended their 79 day strike, winning a partial victory after costing planters at least $15.
On August 11, 1937, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union formed, under the leadership of the radical Australian immigrant Harry Bridges. The ILWU would set the pace for how a.
I had the opportunity to review Peter Cole's excellent new book at H-Net and since that's a public resource, I thought I would share the first few paragraphs here: Peter Cole’s superb examination of dockworkers in San Francisco and Durban, South Africa, provides an excellent...
On September 27, 2002, 29 ports on the West Coast closed when the Pacific Maritime Association, a industry group of shippers, decided to lock out their workers affiliated with the.
It looks as if the labor dispute between the longshoremen's union (ILWU) and west coast ports is about over, as Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez has been working hard to.