by admin | Jan 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
Last month’s Dispatcher reported that Anchor workers voted overwhelmingly to ratify their first union contract on December 20. With their victory secure, workers at the first craft brewery in America can share some of the factors behind their organizing victory. They...
by admin | Jan 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
A team of auto-processors at San Francisco’s Pier 80 finally got their ILWU contract in January with Pasha Automotive after a lengthy three-year effort. Good contract with big raises Their contract that was signed on January 16th included significant raises, good...
by admin | Jan 30, 2020 | Featured
Organizing has been essential to the ILWU’s success since the founding of our union. It began with the militancy of west coast longshoremen, then inspired a march inland to organize warehouse and industrial workers. Across the Pacific, in Hawaii, the spark of...
by admin | Jan 2, 2020 | Featured
Former Vice President Joe Biden and retired investor Tom Steyer became the 4th and 5th 2020 U.S. Presidential candidates to visit ILWU headquarters in San Francisco where both had separate free-ranging discussion with members of the International Executive Board....
by admin | Dec 11, 2019 | Featured
Editor’s note: The Dispatcher will be profiling ILWU Locals and Affiliates in the coming months. This profile of the IBU’s Southern California Region was the first one in the series and was drawn at random. Inlandboatmen’s Union, Southern California Region The...
