Day: September 5, 2016

ILWU Local 13 official: Hanjin bankruptcy means ‘gates have been shut’ on 200-300 local jobs

Sep 5, 2016

From a Los Angeles Times article titled ‘Officials call for action on cargo delivery crisis at ports’: Fallout from Hanjin’s decline could have particularly acute effects in Southern California because Hanjin owns a...

No doubt about it: Oil-by-rail is threat

Sep 5, 2016

The Olympian published the following opinion piece by Jared Smith, President of ILWU Local 4 in Vancouver, WA: On this Labor Day, longshoremen look back on a summer that vindicated our opposition to America’s largest proposed...