by admin | Jun 16, 2011 | June 2011 Dispatcher, Pensioners
Before John Eberhardt started jumping out of airplanes, he was working on the docks as a Local 13 member and later as a foreman with Local 94. Co-worker Manuel Cabrera got him to take his first jump on July 7, 2002 in the Mojave Desert town of California City – just...
by admin | Jun 16, 2011 | Featured, Helping Our Community, June 2011 Dispatcher
Within three years, container ships coming to California ports will be required to radically reduce emissions by turning-off dirty diesel power generators and plugging into electric shore power. The Port of Los Angeles led the way with this technology a decade ago,...
by admin | Jun 16, 2011 | Events, June 2011 Dispatcher, Uncategorized
Los Angeles/Long Beach is hosting a very big event with up to 5,000 expected. The picnic happens at Harry Bridges Memorial Park in Long Beach next to the Queen Mary. But the day actually begins at 9am when members gather at Roosevelt Park Cemetery in Gardena to honor...
by admin | Jun 13, 2011 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs, June 2011 Dispatcher, Take Action
A powerful show of solidarity from ILWU locals up and down the West Coast brought together 1,200 union members and allies who came to Portland for an important rally on June 3rd. The rally was called to protest a massive new grainhandling facility being built on the...
by admin | Jun 13, 2011 | Featured, June 2011 Dispatcher, Remembering Our History
Over two hundred ILWU members, community supporters and labor activists gathered at the University of Washington campus in Seattle to celebrate the lives of Gene Viernes and Silme Domingo, two young, reform-minded officers of Local 37 who were assassinated in...
by admin | Jun 12, 2011 | Featured, June 2011 Dispatcher, Solidarity, Take Action
In 2009, ILWU members and Teamsters joined the Dutch dockers union at a demonstration outside of the Transamerica tower in San Francisco’s financial district. The Dutch dockers’ union, known as FNV Bondgenoten, was demanding the return of pension money from the giant...
