by admin | Oct 17, 2017 | Featured, October 2017 Dispatcher, Remembering Our History
and turbulent origins. 1934 longshore strike headquarters The story begins almost ten years ago when the Commonwealth Club – America’s oldest public affairs forum – began searching for a site to build their new headquarters in San Francisco. They discovered a...
by admin | Oct 17, 2017 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs, October 2017 Dispatcher
The Inlandboatmen’s Union, the marine division of the ILWU, held a groundbreaking ceremony for the training hall of their newly established apprenticeship program. The IBU apprenticeship is a two-year program that will provide mariners with the skills and knowledge to...
by admin | Oct 16, 2017 | Featured, October 2017 Dispatcher, Pensioners
The 50th Annual Convention of the ILWU’s Pacific Coast Pensioners Association (PCPA) was held September 18-20 in Long Beach, California where delegates marked their important organizational milestone. The convention was hosted by the Southern California Pensioners....
by admin | Oct 12, 2017 | Featured, October 2017 Dispatcher
Uber – the anti-union, “disruptive” high-tech darling of venture capitalists – got a bloody nose in London late September from public regulators who refused to issue the company a license and declared them “not fit and proper.” This wasn’t the first time Uber has...
