by Roy San Filippo | Feb 8, 2023 | Featured
Featured South Seattle intermodal workers win first ILWU contract through strategy, solidarity Six months to the day after launching a fight to be union, chassis and container mechanics employed by P&B Intermodal at the BNSF South Seattle Intermodal Facility in...
by Roy San Filippo | Feb 7, 2023 | Featured
Featured Local 4 member Rick Anderson retires, recalls activism and five generations on Vancouver’s waterfront One of the most visible activists during the 2013 grain lockout at UGC in Vancouver, fourth-generation Local 4 member Rick Anderson, officially retired in...
by Roy San Filippo | Feb 7, 2023 | Featured, From the Titled Officers
Featured From the Titled Officers ILWU Statement on the Earthquake in Syria and Turkey The International Longshore and Warehouse Union expresses our condolences and solidarity to all those in Turkey and Syria who were affected by the devastating earthquake on February...
by Roy San Filippo | Dec 30, 2022 | Featured
Featured ILWU pensioner reflects on his 51-year career in Locals 13 and 94 James Gyerman describes backbreaking work of the 1950’s, working first container ship in 1960’s [In November, The Dispatcher sat down for an extended interview with ILWU pensioner James...
by Roy San Filippo | Dec 29, 2022 | Featured
IBU rallies at L.A. Harbor Commission to save good jobs Scores of union members from the Inlandboatmen’s Union of the Pacific (IBU) and other divisions of the ILWU rallied in front of the Los Angeles Harbor Commission on December 15 to raise awareness about the impact...
