Jack Heyman

Jack Heyman (jackheyman@mac.com) is chair of the Transport Workers Solidarity Committee www.transportworkers.org and a retired longshoreman who writes on labor politics and history. 

The Survival of the ILWU at Stake!

Whitewashing American History: the WPA Mural Controversy in San Francisco

The Tragic Death of Byron Jacobs, Hero of the EGT Longshore Struggle

Organizing Workers Strikes Against War and Repression

Puerto Rico and the Jones Act Conundrum

Class War on the Waterfront: Longshore Workers Under Attack

Vietnam Revisited During Trump’s Bonkers Brinkmanship

In America’s Prisons: Mumia and the Nightmarish Hepatitis C Epidemic

How Protests Against Israeli Bombing of Gaza Stopped Zim Ships

Inequality of Wealth and the Role of Unions

ILWU’s Northwest Grain Conflict

Longshore Union Faces the Grain Monopolies

The ILWU Longshore Struggle in Longview and Beyond

Longshoremen Will Shut Down All Bay Area Ports

The Iron Heel Revisited

Civil Liberties Victory in Oakland Courts: All Charges Dropped Against Port Anti-War Protesters; Longshoremen Plan Mass March on Washington

Bushfires on the Docks