by admin | Feb 27, 2018 | Featured
“Good people share and aren’t scared about letting other people have a go,” Paddy Crumlin told a room full of International delegates in London this November. Crumlin is President of the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF), and he welcomed dozens of youth...
by admin | Feb 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
Download the 2018 Convention Call here (PDF).
by admin | Jan 26, 2018 | Uncategorized
In 1935, President Franklin Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) that legalized the right of workers to form unions, negotiate contracts and conduct job actions. It also recognized the importance of “union shops” where all workers shared the cost...
by admin | Jan 26, 2018 | Featured
The better pay, benefits and rights on the job that ILWU members and other union workers have enjoyed for decades are being challenged this year by a clever plan to weaken unions, called “right to work.” Supreme Court’s “Janus” case The U.S. Supreme Court recently...
by admin | Dec 28, 2017 | Uncategorized
Lou Loveridge was an active participant and shaper of history during his ninety years that included a deep commitment to the ILWU and lifelong devotion to trade unionism that ended peacefully on November 16, 2017. He was born on November 13, 1923 in the tiny community...
