Posts Tagged ‘ILWU’
Fact Sheet: Trust The American Worker to Know What Is Best
Trust Workers to Support Unions Voluntarily if They Are Beneficial It Is Preposterous to Assume Monopolistic Unionism Makes All Workers Better Off Economically Download PDF File of Trust Workers to Support Unions Voluntarily if They Are Beneficial What is the impact on your compensation of handing a union monopoly power to deal with your employer…
Read MoreILWU Boss Michael Williams Pleads Guilty to Third-Degree Theft
Michael Williams, ILWU Local 200 – Unit 62’s Secretary/Treasurer, has pleaded guilty to theft.
Read MoreMichael Williams, ILWU’s Secretary/Treasurer, Charged With Theft
ILWU Local 200, Unit 62’s Secretary/Treasurer, Michael Williams, has been charged with 2 different crimes.
Read MoreILWU Boss Charles Kimo Brown Found Guilty of Crimes
ILWU union boss Charles Kimo Brown has been found guilty of four criminal acts, including embezzlement and falsifying union records.
Read MoreNLRB: Longshoremans Union Broke Labor Laws
The National Labor Relations Board has ruled the Longshoremans Union (ILWU) has violated federal law with slowdowns and work stoppages which could cost union members millions of dollars and jobs. Rich Bowmer has the story on Jefferson Public Radio.org. Since September, the National Labor Relations Board has ruled – twice – that the International Longshore…
Read MoreNILRR News Clips February 13, 2015
Illinois Governor Fights Forced Unionism Western Journalism.com, February 11, 2015 Patrick Semmens of the National Right to Work Foundation commented on Rauner’s executive order: “This executive action is a bold step to protect the rights of Illinois state employees from being forced to pay tribute to union bosses as a condition of working as a…
Read MoreILWU Bosses Found Guilty of Slowdowns
The National Labor Relations Board has found the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) guilty of intentional slowdowns at the Port of Portland. Joseph Rose has the story at the Oregonian. The 18-page decision, (PDF) written by administrative law judge Jeffrey D. Wedekind in San Francisco, orders ILWU and its Local 8 and Local 40…
Read MoreUnion Bosses Threaten Harm to Children
Authorities are investigating allegatons of threats and violence to workers as well as their children, in a year-long strike filled with violence and threats. Richard Read has the story on Oregonlive.com The National Labor Relations Board accused longshoremen this week of assaulting United Grain Corp. security officers and threatening to rape a manager’s daughter and…
Read More“There Will Be Blood”: Union Violence in the Age of Obama
From Michelle Malkin, a short overview on union violence, including the incidents which accompanied passage of Michigan’s Right to Work Law. Not so many moons ago, President Obama urged us all to “make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.” He Who Heals…
Read MoreCourt Denies Injunction in Port Strike
The Daily Labor Report reveals Judge Michael H. Simon of the U. S. District Court for the District of Oregon denied an NLRB petition to hold the ILWU and two locals in contempt of a previous injunction against secondary actions and threats in the ongoing strike at the Port of Portland, Oregon. Lawrence Dubé has…
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