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Organize your
workplace!!!
It's Your right
ILWU
International's Official Organizing page
Federal Law gives all workers a legal right to
organize a Union. It is illegal for your employer to threaten
you or discriminate against you because you support a Union. It
is illegal for your employer to threaten to close down the
business because workers organize a Union.
A Union is working people getting together to
defend each other, and to work in unity to make improvements on
the job. In the ILWU and our marine division , the IBU, the
members make the decisions about the issues that affect us.
That's democracy. That's what a Union is all about.
There is not a single US Citizen who has not
benefited from the struggles, sacrifices and victories of the US
labor movement. Things we take for granted--child labor laws,
unemployment insurance, the 8-hour day, the minimum wage, health
and safety regulations--are a direct result of the strikes,
sit-downs, slow-downs, and actions of organized workers.
Unfortunately, most of this history has been effectively purged
from our collective memory. The US political establishment
portrays unions as out of date and somehow "no longer
necessary."
Let the ILWU
help you in
organizing your workplace. It doesn't
matter what business or industry you are in or what part of the
country you are in, we can help. Don't be afraid to approach any
union, regardless of their name : hospitals have been organized
by the Longshoremen, office workers by the United Auto Workers,
etc.
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International
Longshore & Warehouse Union 1188 Franklin St.
San Francisco, CA 94109
415.775.0533
www.ilwu.org
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Puget
Sound Region
2800 1st Ave
Seattle, WA 98121
Phone:
206.448.1870
Fax: 206.4471449
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Field organizers
Puget Sound
Region:
John Briar
Phone: 206.448.1870
Fax: 206.4471449
Cell: 206.851.7177
jbrier0304@yahoo.com |
Quote
on Organizing the Unorganized:
"I
would say here that the first step to organizing the unorganized
is
organizing the unionized. We have an immense arsenal in our own
membership
both active and retired. Our own Longshore Union membership is a
key to
convincing the unorganized workers that they have a future in
the trade union
movement. It helps to them know that they can also play a major
role in
rebuilding of the labor movement. It’s a first step toward a
better future and
the rewards far outweigh the disadvantages and risks in any
organizing
campaign! Volunteer to help you Local Union and all AFL-CIO
labor Unions
engaged in organizing campaigns in your area. This is a great
way to repay
organized labor for the benefits we now enjoy as union
members."
Notes
on Organizing
The
Union Shop Versus the Non-Union Shop
Links to helpful organizing
sites
AFL-CIO
Organizing Institute
How
& Why People Join Unions
Past Organizing successes :
Security
officers for the Portland-based
Metropolitan Exposition-Recreation Commission (MERC)
ILWU Local 28
July 16, 2003
The ferry terminal workers at Friday Harbor on
San Juan Island.
The workers, employed by Aeronautical Services
IBU Puget Sound Region
January 03, 2002
Alaska
Nautical Services
IBU Alaska Region
June 14, 2001
Food
service workers employed by Fine Host
Corporation at The Evergreen State College:
ILWU Local 47
January 11, 2001
Powell's
Books Portland, Oregon :
ILWU Local 5
April 22, 1999
Russell's
at Orcas,
Orcas Island ferry loading, organized by the IBU
March 25,1999
Ground Transport administrative
staff at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport :
ILWU Local 9
January 12, 1999
San Francisco Bicycle Couriers:
ILWU Local 6
1999
The Mission Council on Alcohol
Abuse in San Francisco :
ILWU Local 6
November 25, 1998
Yang Ming Line Office Clerical
Unit Los Angeles :
ILWU local 63,
January 1996
"With all their faults, trade-unions have
done more for humanity than any other organization of men that
ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for
education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of
character in man, than any other association of men."
- Clarence Darrow (1857-1938), U.S. lawyer, writer. The Railroad
Trainman (Nov. 1909).
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