by Roy San Filippo | Mar 9, 2023 | Featured
Featured Local 10 delegation marks 50th anniversary of the Durban Strikes Wave of worker shutdowns revived anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa More than a dozen members of ILWU Local 10 recently traveled to South Africa to learn about the country’s...
by Roy San Filippo | Feb 9, 2023 | Featured
Featured We are the ILWU: Local 1000 Home Healthcare Operators, Hawai’i The ILWU’s newest local, Local 1000 Home Health Care Operators, was chartered in September of 2022 and currently represents approximately 125 members in the State of Hawai’i. These workers operate...
by Roy San Filippo | Feb 8, 2023 | Featured
Featured South Seattle intermodal workers win first ILWU contract through strategy, solidarity Six months to the day after launching a fight to be union, chassis and container mechanics employed by P&B Intermodal at the BNSF South Seattle Intermodal Facility in...
by Roy San Filippo | Feb 7, 2023 | Featured
Featured Local 4 member Rick Anderson retires, recalls activism and five generations on Vancouver’s waterfront One of the most visible activists during the 2013 grain lockout at UGC in Vancouver, fourth-generation Local 4 member Rick Anderson, officially retired in...
by Roy San Filippo | Feb 7, 2023 | Featured, From the Titled Officers
Featured From the Titled Officers ILWU Statement on the Earthquake in Syria and Turkey The International Longshore and Warehouse Union expresses our condolences and solidarity to all those in Turkey and Syria who were affected by the devastating earthquake on February...
by Roy San Filippo | Dec 30, 2022 | Featured
Featured ILWU pensioner reflects on his 51-year career in Locals 13 and 94 James Gyerman describes backbreaking work of the 1950’s, working first container ship in 1960’s [In November, The Dispatcher sat down for an extended interview with ILWU pensioner James...
