*** LOCKOUT ENDED *** http://cupe.ca/strikes/lockout-port-montreal
*** UPDATED 7/22 at 9pm *** CUPE Local 375 announced that the lockout will end on Saturday July 24. Members will be discussing and voting on the terms negotiated to end the lockout at a membership meeting on Friday July 23. The details of the settlement have not been released. […]

Repression Against a Longshore Union and an International Response

Costa Rica’s government replaced the democratically elected longshore union leaders in March after the elected leadership refused to go along with the government-mandated privatization of Puerto Limon and Puerto Moin.
At the February 2010 General Assembly of the International Dockworkers Council in Charleston, South Carolina, affiliates resolved to […]

The Fourth General Assembly of the IDC Meets in Charleston
(For more about this meeting, read this article by journalist JoAnn Wypijewski. This report was published in the March 1-15, 2010 issue (vol. 7, no. 5) of CounterPunch. JoAnn can be reached at jwyp@earthlink.net.)
Longshore representatives from twenty different countries met in Charleston, South […]

From the International Dockworkers Council:
Dear colleagues / Estimados compañeros / Chers collègues:
Our colleagues in the Port of Lisbon are on strike from 7-10 July:
The Port of Lisbon will totally stop any activity, and minimal services will be offered by the Ports of Setubal and Figueira da Foz.
The Draft Bill for the new Ports Law will […]

ILA Local 1422 used its political clout to block the appointment of Charlie Condon to the board of South Carolina State Ports Authority. Condon is the former Attorney General and lead prosecutor who indicted five longshoreman on felony rioting charges during a picket, later known as “The Charleston Five.”
As Attorney General, Mr. Condon personified the […]

Thousands protest to defeat anti-union bill
In a historic moment in the struggle of dockworkers around the globe to preserve and improve working conditions, dockworkers forced the European Parliament to reject the Bill for the European Port Services this past January.