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USA : Harold Meyerson: Stockton and San Bernardino brought down by housing busts and by banks peddling subprime mortgages to poorly paid workers

Source: LATimes

USA : USW criticizes house committee action on granting Russia permanent most favored nation treatment

Source: USW

USA : Unilver shutters ice scream plant: Almost 400 jobs eliminated

Source: Hagerstown Herald-Mail

USA : Hyatt hotel worker: I was fired after talking to Indianapolis City-County Council

Source: Indystar.com

ILWU Pickets Oregon Barge Facility

Industry publications continue to show interest in the recent longshore protest in Coos Bay. From Pacific Maritime Magazine:
An International Longshore and Warehouse Union local branch has begun what it says is an informational campaign against an Oregon lumber company that has hired non-union labor to work at a new barge facility.
Members of ILWU Local 12 picketed the Southport Lumber Co.’s mill on the North Spit in the Coo’s Bay area on July 9 in response to the company hiring workers who are not union members to load and unload barges.
Southport bought the barge slip from the Port of Coos Bay in 2004 then rehabilitated it, thanks in part to a public subsidy. The ILWU claims the protest is against “the company’s bid to undercut wages and cut staffing at a newly renovated barge slip that received $500,000 in public funds.”

ILA Affiliating with International Dockworker’s Council

The IDC unites dockworkers around the globe, including ILWU, seen here represented by International President Robert McEllrath and Vice President (Mainland) Ray Familathe last month.
The International Longshoremen’s Association, AFL-CIO plans to affiliate with the worldwide International Dockworkers Council (IDC), according to an announcement by the ILA’s president, Harold J. Daggett.
The IDC is an association formed by organization of dockworkers from around the world. It is defined by its basic principles as being a unitary, independent, democratic assembly-basked working-class organization.
Last week, ILA President Daggett, ILA’s Atlantic Coast District President Dennis Daggett and Kenneth Riley, an ILA Vice President from Charleston, South Carolina met with leaders of the IDC in New York City where it was decided the ILA would join the IDC. Already, several ILA Locals in the U.S. and Canada were affiliated members of the IDC and Brother Kenneth Riley currently serves as Coordinator of the IDC’s North America East Coast Zone.
– From an ILA news release

USA : Seagoing unions blindsided in new highway funding bill

Source: Working In These Times

USA : Take Action: Tell the Senate to Extend the Bush Tax Cuts for the Middle Class!

Source: AFT

USA : Boycott these hotels!

Source: Hotel Workers Rising

USA : Tomato grower settles suit filed by EEOC

Source: News-Press