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When Wisconsin state workers were courageously occupying the state capitol to protest Governor Scott Walker’s attack on their unions’ right to bargain, AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka trumpeted a ...
Anger is building among the 22,000 dockworkers in the United States at 29 West Coast ports who have been working over three months without a contract since the previous agreement expired on July 1, ...
Carl Finamore, a delegate to the San Francisco Labor Council, examines the factors surrounding the longshore union's decision to leave the AFL-CIO. ON AUGUST 29, the 60,000-member International ...
Contract negotiations will resume Monday in San Francisco between a labor union representing 10,500 longshore workers and an association of shipping lines using West Coast ports, amid high political ...
A recent $93.6 million verdict from an Oregon jury has the potential to bankrupt a union that some describe as one of the strongest and most militant in the United States—the International Longshore ...
A recent federal court decision in Portland, Oregon poses an immediate existential threat to the strongest union in the U.S. today, the ILWU, and ultimately to the labor movement as a whole. The ...
The West Coast longshore union has called it quits in its 25-year-long connection with the national AFL-CIO, citing picket line breaches and charging that dockworkers had been sabatoged by some ...