by admin | Mar 6, 2020 | Featured
For the first time in over a decade, ILWU Locals marched in a show of strength at the Los Angeles Kingdom Day parade to honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This year’s parade theme was “Equality For All Humanity, Our Next Step.” The three-mile...
by admin | Jan 31, 2020 | Featured
ILWU Local 5 was chartered on August 10, 2000, after a two-year organizing and contract campaign by 400 workers at Powell’s Books in Portland. The organizing effort began in 1998 when the company restructured jobs and significantly reduced raises for workers....
by admin | Jan 31, 2020 | Featured
The need for increased ILWU Political Action It is no secret that working families have much at stake in the 2020 U.S. Federal elections. On November 3rd, our nation will elect a President, 35 Senators, and 435 members of the House Representatives. If there was ever a...
by admin | Jan 30, 2020 | Featured
Organizing has been essential to the ILWU’s success since the founding of our union. It began with the militancy of west coast longshoremen, then inspired a march inland to organize warehouse and industrial workers. Across the Pacific, in Hawaii, the spark of...
by admin | Jan 2, 2020 | Featured
Former Vice President Joe Biden and retired investor Tom Steyer became the 4th and 5th 2020 U.S. Presidential candidates to visit ILWU headquarters in San Francisco where both had separate free-ranging discussion with members of the International Executive Board....
by admin | Dec 11, 2019 | Featured
Editor’s note: The Dispatcher will be profiling ILWU Locals and Affiliates in the coming months. This profile of the IBU’s Southern California Region was the first one in the series and was drawn at random. Inlandboatmen’s Union, Southern California Region The...
