*** 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. […]

VIEWPOINT: Protect Our Jobs and the Environment
by Dione Barlow, ILA Local 1526, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
(This will appear in the Spring 2010 Issue of Pier Pressure)
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From the shores of Portland, Oregon to the beaches of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and beyond, the efforts to both preserve our environment and […]

A “Members for Change” slate overwhelmingly won the election race for new officers in ILA Local 2047 in Lake Charles, Louisiana on March 26. Several of the new officers are members of the LWC.
The new leadership, which will take office mid-April, campaigned because they wanted to “build an honest union that represents all members.” Some […]

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LWC Membership Meeting & 10th Anniversary Commemoration
June 10-12, 2010, Savannah, Georgia
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GUEST SPEAKER:
Bill Lucy, Secretary-Treasurer, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees & Founder and President of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists.
MEETING TOPICS:
* Commemorating the LWC’s […]

Longshore Workers’ Coalition News Update
February 5, 2010
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ILA AGREES TO AUTOMATED TERMINAL IN JACKSONVILLE
According to media reports, officials of Hanjin Shipping and the ILA tentatively agreed on a contract establishing staffing levels for a highly automated container terminal Hanjin plans to open in Jacksonville, Florida, in 2013.
The Jacksonville Business Journal […]

Read whole article below to see interview with our staff organizer about using texts on the docks.
Steward’s Corner: Txt & Tweet 2 Org & Inform (Labor Notes, December 2009)
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Online social media tools like Twitter are often dismissed as time-wasters for the procrastinator in all of us. But they’re also being harnessed for […]

The ILA announced on Tuesday November 17 that 9,736 ILA members voted on the contract extension proposal, with 6,417 members voting yes.
Click here for the ILA’s local-by-local vote count results.
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The LWC thanks all of our ILA sisters and brothers who campaigned and educated for a better contract.
We led the fight for an end to the […]

Read for yourself, from ILA Atlantic Coast District website, an industry report that seems to run counter to the ILA vote yes campaign.

Longshore Contract: Peter Robbed, Paul Paid, Reformers Regroup
by Mark Brenner
Labor Notes, November 19, 2009
Rank-and-file longshore workers pushed to reject another contract, after sending top officials in the East Coast Longshoremen’s union back to the bargaining table in September.
But on November 17 longshore (ILA) members approved a two-year extension to their master contract covering 12,000 […]

Check out this video produced by members of ILA Local 1588 in Bayonne, New Jersey.
“President Richard Hughes didn’t show up to his promised meeting with ILA local 1558, but we had the meeting anyway, and we posed some questions that all longshoremen should be asking about this contract, a contract that we will be voting […]