by Roy San Filippo | May 15, 2024 | Featured
Featured ILWU members gather to honor fallen workers on 90th Anniversary of ‘First Blood’ On May 15, more than 400 ILWU members, pensioners, and officers from Locals 13, 63, 63-OCU, 94, 26, 56, Inlandboatmen’s Union, the LA Port Police, and Federated Auxiliary 8...
by Roy San Filippo | May 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
A new podcast, Organize the Unorganized, tells the story of the CIO Despite an exciting year of strikes and labor activity, union density more or less stayed flat in 2023 at 10%, and it remains at a dismal 6% in the private sector. As unions have declined in size and...
by Roy San Filippo | Apr 8, 2024 | Featured
Featured ILWU, community coalition, defeats proposed baseball stadium on Oakland waterfront Stadium redevelopment project posed threat to waterfront jobs and regional economic engine By Melvin MackayLocal 10 In late 2018, the Oakland A’s, the Mayor of Oakland,...
by Roy San Filippo | Apr 8, 2024 | Events, Featured
Events Featured ILWU Canada’s International Women’s Day Event By Jessica Isbister3rd Vice President, ILWU Canada In 2023 there was a letter circulated advertising leadership training for trade union women. At this time a local union official asked the question: What...
by Roy San Filippo | Apr 8, 2024 | Featured
Featured Local 23’s ‘Celebration of Black History and Labor’ event revives Tacoma longshore tradition ILWU Local 23 celebrated Black History Month by holding an event titled “A Celebration of Black History and Labor” on February 18 at Tacoma’s Foss Waterway...
