docks

transport

Steven. — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 11:18:51 +0000

Angolan dockers set to strike over wages

Ed — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:18:19 +0000

More than 2,000 workers want their salaries increased to $800 a month from as low as $240. Head of the workers union, Manuel Sa said the strike would go on indefinitely until workers could negotiate directly with the country's minister of transportation.

1970-71: Uprising in Poland

Alex... — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:59:51 +0000

On the morning of December 14 1970, thousands of workers from the Gdansk shipyards downed tools and began marching into the city. Their objective was the local regional office of the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR), the party that had ruled the People's Republic of Poland since 1952. The protestors were met by police units and fighting between the two sides lasted into the evening.

General strike over prices brings Belgium to a halt

Steven. — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:36:47 +0000

High-speed international rail services in and out of the country to France, the UK, Germany and the Netherlands were cancelled and picketing disrupted the port of Antwerp.

Workers were protesting in advance of the government's 2009 budget to demand action on inflation and the rising cost of living.

Anarcho-syndicalism in Puerto Real from shipyard resistance to community control

Jason Cortez — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:49:36 +0000

Foreword
The recent struggle in and around the shipyards of Puerto Real, Spain, in both workplace and community, against threatened closure witnessed the anarcho-syndicalist union CNT playing both a prominent and decisive role.

Strike in the docks of Constanta

irrwahn — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 05:11:26 +0000

DP World - Europe's Eastern gateway blocked:

Strike in the docks of Constanta

Water transport workers in Bangladesh in national wildcat

Ed — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:38:46 +0000

The workers stopped working at midnight Thursday, calling for increased wages in keeping with the current prices of essentials and cost of living.

Shipping companies file charges over May Day anti-war strike

Ed — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:32:22 +0000

The Pacific Maritime Association has asked the National Labor Relations Board to file charges against the union. The employers’ move, initiated in late May, comes in the midst of ongoing contract talks.

The Ecological Challenge: Three Revolutions are Necessary

Flint — Sat, 03 May 2008 13:35:25 +0000

The Ecological Challenge: Three Revolutions are Necessary
by Alternative Libertaire

Dockworkers strike against war in America and Iraq

Ed — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:32:27 +0000

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union declared the day as "a day for union business" for workers at all 29 ports on the west coast. This may be the beginning of a record setting anti-war action, since the vast majority of supplies and munitions for the American government's current wars are shipped from the 29 ports on the West Coast. All 29 were closed today.