by admin | Jan 7, 2022 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs
Featured Fighting for Good Jobs Local 8 ULP Strike Urges Overseas Employer to Drop Baseless Lawsuit Portland Longhore workers stand up to Japanese company Columbia Export Terminal to drop baseless, $15 million lawsuit against 150 local grainhandlers Pacific Northwest...
by admin | Jan 5, 2022 | Featured, Organizing
Featured Organizing ILWU members at OIA Global ratify first contract Members of ILWU Local 63 OCU unanimously ratified their first collective bargaining agreement with OIA Global (OIA) on December 3rd. This is the first-ever freight forwarding company be unionized....
by admin | Jan 3, 2022 | Featured, Helping Our Community
Giving is a tradition: ILWU’s 24th Annual Feed the Community DayJanuary 3, 2022 11:51 am The Southern California ILWU’s 24th Annual Feed the Community Day, sponsored by Locals 13, 63, and 94, So Cal Pensioners, Auxiliary 8, and the ILWU Credit Union, provided 1,500...
by admin | Dec 23, 2021 | Featured, Remembering Our History
Featured Remembering Our History Looking back at the 1948 strike The ILWU was born out of the 1934 West Coast Maritime Strike, but strikes have been a rare occurrence for the union. The ILWU Longshore Division has exercised its right to strike only two other times in...
by admin | Dec 10, 2021 | Featured
Featured As warehouse heat rises, politicians slow to act On October 7th, the Los Angeles Times published an investigative report on dangerous conditions in Southern California warehouses caused by excessive heat. The article details how increasing temperatures and...
by admin | Dec 1, 2021 | Featured
Featured Inlandboatmen’s Union tackles challenges, embraces opportunities at 25th Convention Delegates and guests met via Zoom for the Inlandboatmen’s Union of the Pacific’s (IBU) 25th Convention November 10-13. The convention sets the course of the IBU for the next...
