by admin | Jun 12, 2020 | Featured
On May 15, ILWU members, pensioners, auxiliary and officers from Locals 13, 63 and 94 gathered at the Longshore memorial in San Pedro’s Gibson Park for the 18th annual First Blood Memorial to honor longshore workers who died while working at the Ports of Los Angeles...
by admin | Jun 12, 2020 | Featured
Our union’s legislative staff in Washington are working with the International Officers to help ILWU families cope with the COVID-19 pandemic that’s causing so much death, job loss and economic hardship for working families. It didn’t have to be this way. Since Trump...
by admin | Jun 12, 2020 | Featured
• George Floyd murder launches national action • COVID-19 death toll in U.S. claims over 100,000 lives • Trump threatens to block voting & deploy military International Officers & Executive Board take action Americans were already reeling in late May from the...
by admin | Jun 10, 2020 | Featured
400,000 dockers stand with Seward, Alaska in condemning Possehl Erzkontor and Alaska Logistics The ITF Dockers, representing 400,000 dock workers worldwide, stand in solidarity with our sisters and brothers in Seward, Alaska, represented by International Longshore and...
by admin | Jun 9, 2020 | Featured
Today thousands of American transport workers from the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) are stopping work and calling for justice for George Floyd and countless others who suffered before...
by admin | Jun 8, 2020 | Featured, Solidarity
ILWU dockworkers on the West Coast will stop work for nine minutes on Tuesday morning, June 9th, at 9 a.m. Pacific Time, to honor George Floyd who was brutally murdered by four Minneapolis Police officers on May 25th. “Our union has a long history of...
