A Cowlitz County District Court judge is mulling a Longshore union request to dismiss criminal trespassing charges filed against several dozen dockworkers and their supporters. Union lawyers told Judge Ron Marshall on Wednesday...
Read MoreThe Occupy movement also said it plans to protest at the ports to support the International Longshore and Warehouse Union in its ongoing dispute with Longview, Wash.-based EGT, which is planning to open a grain terminal without...
Read MoreThe Port of Oakland is girding for another blockade on Dec. 12, six weeks after a Nov. 2 general strike coordinated by Occupy Oakland shut down the port overnight. “The union is not supporting it, is not coordinating the...
Read MoreMajor U.S. railroads have new tentative agreements with four of the 11 unions needed to avert a potential nationwide strike or lockout in December. The agreements announced [in mid-November] follow the creation of a Presidential...
Read MoreThe Oakland Tribune has detailed the safety procedures that longshore workers fought for to protect workers and the community from potentially explosive containers that were serviced in Vietnam with counterfeit coolant: A...
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