by admin | Jun 13, 2011 | Featured, Take Action
A powerful show of solidarity from ILWU locals up and down the West Coast brought together 1,200 union members and allies who came to Portland for an important rally on June 3rd. The rally was called to protest a massive new grainhandling facility being built on the...
by admin | Jun 13, 2011 | Featured
Over two hundred ILWU members, community supporters and labor activists gathered at the University of Washington campus in Seattle to celebrate the lives of Gene Viernes and Silme Domingo, two young, reform-minded officers of Local 37 who were assassinated in...
by admin | Jun 12, 2011 | Featured, Take Action
In 2009, ILWU members and Teamsters joined the Dutch dockers union at a demonstration outside of the Transamerica tower in San Francisco’s financial district. The Dutch dockers’ union, known as FNV Bondgenoten, was demanding the return of pension money from the giant...
by admin | Jun 1, 2011 | Featured
By Robert McEllrath, International President, International Longshore and Warehouse Union Two million Americans and counting have been pressed through a system that was supposed to improve our national port security, but hasn’t. Those longshoremen, marine clerks,...
by admin | May 20, 2011 | Featured
Issues discussed included port specific problems including jurisdiction, California’s infrastructure problems, discretionary cargo and the widening of the Panama Canal. “Not only was this meeting informative on the important issues facing California’s ports, but we...
by admin | May 20, 2011 | Featured
Throughout its history, the ILWU has been committed to rank and file democracy, social justice, and solidarity with other workers and unions on behalf of economic and social gains for working people. The ILWU’s power rests on the hard work of rank and file members who...
