by admin | Feb 1, 2022 | Featured
Featured Harry Bridges Center marks continued growth of Labor Studies with Annual Awards Celebration More than 100 students, faculty, and members of the ILWU community convened in November for the Annual Awards Celebration hosted by the Harry Bridges Center for Labor...
by admin | Jan 7, 2022 | Events, Featured
Events Featured Members of Locals 20 and 30 attend stewards training intensive Strong unions need strong stewards. As rank-and-file volunteers, stewards ensure that the contract is upheld and that important information is shared between members and the union...
by admin | Jan 7, 2022 | Featured
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
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
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...
