The C&H Sugar strike was shaping up to be the most politically significant strike in the country. If the ILWU returns to the picket line in sixty days, they deserve wide support.
We want to keep our seniority, our overtime rights, and it’s important we keep the medical benefits. You put in all of these hours with the Company, and you think they would respect you. The Company doesn’t run without us. The workers make it happen.
Millionaires are only 7% of the U.S. population, but make up half of Congress. It’s long overdue for the workers who create the wealth to have the same opportunity to govern.
Ashton represents something increasingly rare in federal politics: a leader who comes directly from the rank and file.
Pass the torch in remembrance, Brothers and Sisters,
In memory, and In might!
For every soul who dared say, no!
So we could one day say yes to fair wages,
Say yes to dignity!
While we may be living in a very different world politically, the work of our union has not changed. The last three months have underscored the importance of solidarity and having strong unions in our communities.
Despite a history of labor’s hostility toward AAPI workers, we are a vital part of today’s labor movement and remain vigilant to ensure we do not regress in the name of trade or nationalism. We fight for worker rights and safe communities.
Stadium redevelopment project posed threat to waterfront jobs and regional economic engine.
Time to follow the containers, march inland and organize! Time to build a multi-union organizing project. Time to strategize and organize!" Read Robert Cherny’s “Harry Bridges Labor Radical, Labor Legend”, University of Illinois Press 2023.
Pro-Palestine “Block the Boat” actions, where dockworkers block the transport of arms to Israel, have proliferated in recent years. Recalling actions against apartheid South Africa, they’re an effective way for labor to oppose Israel’s war on Gaza.
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