by admin | Mar 12, 2019 | Featured
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
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, 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
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...
by admin | Feb 6, 2019 | Featured
David Arian, a major force in the ILWU for four decades who identified with the rank-and-file membership, called himself a “radical” and rose to become International President, died January 2 at the age of 72, surrounded by friends and family in his hometown of San...
by admin | Dec 19, 2018 | Featured
On Sunday, November 11, 2018, over 250 people gathered at the University of Washington in Seattle to celebrate the contributions of students, faculty and working people to labor research and advocacy. The Labor Studies awards banquet, which has been held annually for...
