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When Wisconsin state workers were courageously occupying the state capitol to protest Governor Scott Walker’s attack on their unions’ right to bargain, AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka trumpeted a ...

Anger is building among the 22,000 dockworkers in the United States at 29 West Coast ports who have been working over three months without a contract since the previous agreement expired on July 1, ...

A recent $93.6 million verdict from an Oregon jury has the potential to bankrupt a union that some describe as one of the strongest and most militant in the United States—the International Longshore ...

A recent federal court decision in Portland, Oregon poses an immediate existential threat to the strongest union in the U.S. today, the ILWU, and ultimately to the labor movement as a whole. The ...

HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - Honolulu mayoral candidate Colleen Hanabusa has picked up another big endorsement. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 142 is backing Hanabusa in ...

Contract negotiations will resume Monday in San Francisco between a labor union representing 10,500 longshore workers and an association of shipping lines using West Coast ports, amid high political ...

The West Coast longshore union has called it quits in its 25-year-long connection with the national AFL-CIO, citing picket line breaches and charging that dockworkers had been sabatoged by some ...

On Tuesday, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) released a three-paragraph statement announcing “a tentative agreement on terms for health benefits, subject to agreement on the ...

The United Farm Workers union is known for its moral clout, the Teamsters for its economic power. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union, whose contract dispute with West Coast shippers has ...