by admin | Oct 29, 2015 | Featured, Helping Our Community, October 2015 Dispatcher
Local 26 member David Gonzales is leading an impressive but quiet effort with other volunteers in Wilmington who serve hundreds of meals each week to homeless and hungry people in the harbor area. “I know what it’s like to be on the streets because I was there once...
by admin | Oct 21, 2015 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs, Helping Our Community, October 2015 Dispatcher
An overflow crowd at the Oakland City Council meeting on September 15 heard ILWU leaders taking passionate positions against a controversial coal export terminal that developers and coal industry lobbyists want to build on a private dock with public subsidies. Six...
by admin | Oct 21, 2015 | Featured, October 2015 Dispatcher
Members of ILWU Local 4 have joined forces with community and environmental allies to stop a scheme by big oil that could ruin their port, close the Columbia River and turn their city into a disaster area. Power play Documents show that officials from the Port of...
