This post can also be found at workingwa.org For more than a week, hundreds of truck drivers at our seaport have stopped working to protest unfair treatment, unsafe work conditions and their lack of workplace rights. They are putting their livelihoods on the line because they know that fighting together is the best way to [...]
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Support the Seattle Port Trucker Strike!
Event Title & Host Rally for Seattle Port Trucker Strike! Website https://www.facebook.com/events/251667024907923/ When? Monday, 2/13, 9am-12pm Where? E. Marginal Way and Hanford, under the viaduct Why? Longshore workers asked us to support them at a strike rally they’ll hold on Monday. Description Over the last two weeks non-unionized short-haul truckers at the port have refused [...]
New Project: Black Coffee Workers Cooperative
Black Coffee is a worker’s cooperative recently formed with the intention to create a café space & infoshop in Seattle. We are still in the initial organizing stages. Black Coffee Coop is committed to a non-hierarchical structure of work & a not-for-profit model of commerce. All members of the Black Coffee Cooperative will have equivalent [...]
Call for Researchers: Food & Labor Justice
Food justice and the food justice movement invoke in the popular imagination such concepts as fair trade, organic, and urban agriculture. The movement is sometimes perceived as a privileged environmental struggle. Yet food justice, as all of us who are passionate about it know, is inherently about social justice; this is inextricable from its ecological [...]
Stand in Solidarity with the United Farm Workers
Event Title & Host Stand in Solidarity with the United Farm Workers Website https://www.facebook.com/events/298062443573351/ When? Friday, January 27, 2012, 2pm (Westlake) / 3pm (Darigold HQ) Where? Westlake Park (401 Pine St) / Darigold Headquarters at 1130 Rainier Ave. S Why? Solidarity with Farmworkers! We are what we eat, and we are who grows our food! [...]
Solidarity with ILWU- Planning Meeting and Seattle Speaking Tour- Friday, January 6th
What: Planning meeting and speaking tour Where: Seattle Labor Temple, 2800 1st Ave in Belltown, Hall 8 When: January 6th, 4 pm planning meeting for folks interested in organizing, 6 pm discussion and speakers’ presentations Why: International Longshore and Warehouse Union has a history of militant solidarity, notably on the West Coast. A recent example [...]
March and Vigil in Solidarity with Wukan Village
Where 1pm Westlake rally/march 5:30 Hing Hay Park in the International District (corner of S. Maynard and King St. S) Description The people of Seattle support the people of Wukan in the struggle for economic justice. At the very moment you read this, our brothers and sisters in Wukan, a small village in the south [...]
Occupy Seattle: A New Phase for the Workers’ Movement
— PRESS RELEASE — December 13, 2011 CONTACT: Seattleportsolidarity@gmail.com [Note: This article was written by several members of Occupy Seattle who were closely involved with organizing for the December 12th West Coast Port Shut Down. Any opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect all of Occupy Seattle.] SEATTLE, Wash — Monday, December 12th, Occupy protesters and [...]
