by admin | Jun 5, 2019 | Featured, May 2019 Dispatcher
A record 83 ILWU members, officers, and staff who oversee local finances attended the Secretary-Treasurers Conference in Seattle on May 19-24. The five-day training used a combination of interactive exercises and presentations from experts to help participants...
by admin | Apr 17, 2019 | Featured, March 2019 Dispatcher, Solidarity
On March 13, production workers at San Francisco’s Anchor Steam brewery made history by voting to join the ILWU – becoming one of the first craft breweries to go union. The margin was 31-16 but the numbers increased two days later when service workers at the Anchor...
by admin | Apr 16, 2019 | Featured, Helping Our Community, March 2019 Dispatcher
When the critical public ferries operated by Alaska’s Marine Highway System (AMHS) came under attack this year, the Inlandboatmen’s Union (IBU) – the ILWU’s Marine Division – mobilized with community residents to fight back. The crisis came in mid-February when Alaska...
by admin | Apr 16, 2019 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs, March 2019 Dispatcher
Being one of the nation’s largest and most efficient ports has long been a source of pride, good jobs, and prosperity for working-class communities surrounding the mega-port complex of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Despite hard work that set cargo-handling records for...
by admin | Mar 12, 2019 | Featured, February 2018 Dispatcher
Workers who make one of the nation’s best-known craft beers – Anchor Steam – are organizing to join the ILWU. Their grassroots, home-grown campaign is filled with energy and attracting national headlines because craft brews are hot, profitable and popular with young...
by admin | Mar 6, 2019 | Featured, February 2019 Dispatcher, Remembering Our History
Fred Pecker, who led Local 6 members through difficult times by helping workers organize, win strikes and fight for immigrant rights, passed on December 20, 2018, following a battle with pancreatic cancer. Challenging times Pecker joined the ILWU in 1985 after getting...
