by admin | Mar 6, 2020 | Featured
Former ILWU International President David Arian who also served as Vice President of the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners was remembered one year after his passing with a ceremony that dedicated a street and bench in his honor on February 8th in San Pedro....
by admin | Mar 6, 2020 | Featured
A popular Bay Area bakery with loyal customers, delicious baked goods and dramatic expansion plans now has an overwhelming majority of workers organizing to join the ILWU. Tartine workers kicked-off their union campaign on February 6 when employees at each of the...
by admin | Mar 6, 2020 | Featured
For the first time in over a decade, ILWU Locals marched in a show of strength at the Los Angeles Kingdom Day parade to honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This year’s parade theme was “Equality For All Humanity, Our Next Step.” The three-mile...
by admin | Jan 31, 2020 | Featured
ILWU Local 5 was chartered on August 10, 2000, after a two-year organizing and contract campaign by 400 workers at Powell’s Books in Portland. The organizing effort began in 1998 when the company restructured jobs and significantly reduced raises for workers....
by admin | Jan 31, 2020 | Featured
The need for increased ILWU Political Action It is no secret that working families have much at stake in the 2020 U.S. Federal elections. On November 3rd, our nation will elect a President, 35 Senators, and 435 members of the House Representatives. If there was ever a...
