by admin | Jun 1, 2016 | Featured
The Coast Longshore Division Caucus convened from April 18-22 in Panama City, Panama. This historic meeting was the first Longshore Caucus to meet outside of the United States or Canada. More than 100 caucus delegates, fraternal delegates, and pensioners attended the...
by admin | May 29, 2016 | Featured
From Random Length News It had been much rumored for weeks that presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders would come to San Pedro. The question was always when? Random Length News, with our close ties to the ILWU and the local Bernie campaign office, only found out...
by admin | May 2, 2016 | Featured
Hours after the ILWU Executive Board’s endorsed Bernie Sanders for President on March 24, members were scrambling to help the union-friendly candidate who is who standing up for unions and the working class. During the next 48 hours, ILWU members heard union radio ads...
by admin | Mar 29, 2016 | Featured
Americans are beginning to dump our throw-away economy. Curbside recycling is now available in most west coast communities and more than 9,000 cities across America. It’s helping to divert one-third of our waste that used to be burned or buried. Recycling is also good...
by admin | Mar 29, 2016 | Featured
PUUNENE, Maui – At its peak, sugar was the number one industry in Hawaii with hundreds of thousands of acres under cultivation on Kauai, Oahu, Maui and Hawaii island. By 2015, only Maui’s Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company (HC&S) remained of the industry once...
by admin | Mar 29, 2016 | Featured
The ILWU Canada Leadership Course held on February 14-19 at Harrison Hot Springs in British Columbia, was a tremendous success. Our class was bursting at the seams with 26 participants who attended from ILWU Canada Locals 502, 505, 508, 514, 517, Grain Workers Union...
