by admin | Apr 16, 2019 | Featured, Helping Our Community, March 2019 Dispatcher
When the critical public ferries operated by Alaska’s Marine Highway System (AMHS) came under attack this year, the Inlandboatmen’s Union (IBU) – the ILWU’s Marine Division – mobilized with community residents to fight back. The crisis came in mid-February when Alaska...
by admin | Apr 16, 2019 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs, March 2019 Dispatcher
Being one of the nation’s largest and most efficient ports has long been a source of pride, good jobs, and prosperity for working-class communities surrounding the mega-port complex of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Despite hard work that set cargo-handling records for...
by admin | Mar 12, 2019 | Featured, February 2018 Dispatcher
Workers who make one of the nation’s best-known craft beers – Anchor Steam – are organizing to join the ILWU. Their grassroots, home-grown campaign is filled with energy and attracting national headlines because craft brews are hot, profitable and popular with young...
by admin | Mar 6, 2019 | Featured, February 2019 Dispatcher, Remembering Our History
Fred Pecker, who led Local 6 members through difficult times by helping workers organize, win strikes and fight for immigrant rights, passed on December 20, 2018, following a battle with pancreatic cancer. Challenging times Pecker joined the ILWU in 1985 after getting...
by admin | Mar 4, 2019 | Featured, February 2019 Dispatcher, Uncategorized
Sitting in his office, newly elected ILWU Local 34 President Keith Shanklin recalls the first time that he saw the working waterfront. “I remember going to an amusement park in Long Beach called the Pike which had a view of the Port,” Shanklin said. He remembered...
by admin | Feb 8, 2019 | Featured, Helping Our Community, January 2019 Dispatcher
Los Angeles teachers won a carefully-organized six-day strike in January that will deliver smaller class sizes, more nurses and counselors, and greater accountability of private charter schools in the nation’s second largest school system. Early challenges Organizing...
