by admin | Aug 13, 2014 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs, July/August 2014 Dispatcher
ILWU Longshore Caucus delegates reconvened in San Francisco on July 21 and 22 to review the status of ongoing Longshore contract negotiations. Caucus Chair Joe Cortez quickly brought the session to order, then turned over the podium to International President Bob...
by admin | Jun 25, 2014 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs, June 2014 Dispatcher
While the ILWU’s Longshore Negotiating Committee continues meeting with Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) officials to reach terms on a new Longshore & Clerks Contract that will replace the one expiring at midnight on June 30th, eight members of the ILWU’s Safety...
by admin | May 19, 2014 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs, May 2014 Dispatcher
International President Bob McEllrath led the ILWU’s 16-member Longshore & Clerks Contract Negotiating Committee who sat down with their employer counterparts from the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) on May 12 to negotiate a new pact. The talks are expected to...
by admin | May 2, 2014 | April 2014 Dispatcher, Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs
Workers at the Delta Western Fuel Terminal, the largest in the remote Alaskan port of Dutch Harbor, voted to unionize in April through the ILWU’s marine division, the Inlandboatmen’s Union of the Pacific (IBU). Fuel for the “Deadliest Catch” Located on the rugged and...
by admin | Mar 6, 2014 | Featured, February 2014 Dispatcher, Fighting for Good Jobs
“One-to-one, worker-to-worker – that’s a big part of how we organize in the ILWU.” explained Wesley Furtado, International Vice President (Hawaii). This approach has worked for our Union over the years, including 2013 when over 500 new members were brought into Local...
by admin | Mar 6, 2014 | Featured, February 2014 Dispatcher, Fighting for Good Jobs
With the current Longshore and Clerks’ Contract expiring just four months from now on midnight of June 30, 2014, the Coast Longshore Division Caucus began two weeks of meetings on February 24 that will establish member-based priorities for the new contract...
