Predictive Dialing For Dollars: Phoning at the Cutting Edge of Technology
Submitted by Hieronymous on Jun 19 2020 15:01
In response to the release Boots Riley's film Sorry to Bother You in 2018, I wrote this piece about my own experience working in a call center -- and how it took place against the backdrop of my own political radicalization. I post it today in honor of Juneteenth, where my former union, ILWU, will shut down all 29 ports on the U.S. West Coast as part of protests against racism and police violence.
San Francisco dockers call strike to confront white nationalist rally
Submitted by Ed on Aug 21 2017 10:40
Members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 10 in San Francisco have passed a motion to stop work and march on the site of a white nationalist gathering later this week.
The Hilo massacre, 1938
Submitted by Steven. on Aug 1 2017 11:47
Detailed history of the Hilo massacre, Hawaii's Bloody Monday, when police opened fire at a crowd of unarmed striking longshoremen, injuring 50, written by William J. Puette in 1988.
1946: The Great Hawai'i' Sugar Strike
Submitted by Reddebrek on Jan 18 2017 21:31
In 1946 sugar plantation workers across the islands of Hawaii from all ethnic backgrounds shutdown the entire plantation system in the states first multi-ethnic industrial strike.
1949: Hawaii Longshoreman Strike
Submitted by Reddebrek on Jan 18 2017 21:16
Longshoremen in Hawaii were paid less than other longshoreman in the United States. They struck to get an equal pay rate, and were out for 177 days.
Worldwide labor solidarity: the bosses worst nightmare
An article about the Pacific Maritime Association's attempt to identify those who picketed and refused to unload a ship in solidarity with locked-out Liverpool dockers. Originally appeared in the Industrial Worker (October 1998).
Industrial Worker #1704 (April 2008)
The April 2008 issue of the Industrial Worker, the newspaper of the revolutionary union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
The CIO's left-led unions, edited by Steve Rosswurm
Submitted by Anonymous on Jul 12 2015 03:34
A collection edited by Steve Rosswurm of the CIO's unions's that had radical left leadership.
Durruti was a revolutionary unionist (and don't you forget it!)
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Jun 6 2015 22:29
A response by Juan Conatz to a blog that criticizes the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
ILWU locked-out on West Coast for 2 days
Submitted by Supply Chain Re... on Feb 9 2015 00:13
With contract negotiations dragging on since July 1, 2014, the collective of port managers in the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) at 29 West Coast intermodal container ports have locked out the International Longshore & Warehouse Union for the weekend of February 7-8, 2015. Despite PMA conceding and agreeing to pay 100% of longshore workers' health care costs, in addition to covering the "Cadillac Tax" under Obamacare and raising base wages 5% (and guaranteeing pensions of up to $88,800 a year), the union still has unmet demands; with port congestion reaching a crisis point, PMA is playing a game of brinksmanship by locking out the union at all West Coast ports.
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