by admin | Oct 24, 2016 | Featured, Solidarity
ILWU International President Bob McEllrath led a large delegation of ILWU leaders who attended the 7th General Assembly of the International Dockworkers Council (IDC) in Miami, Florida on September 26-29. The semi-annual meeting brought together docker unions from a...
by admin | Jun 30, 2016 | Featured, Solidarity
ILWU International Secretary-Treasurer Willie Adams led an ILWU delegation to Brisbane, Australia in early May that included Local 20 President Rudy Dorame and Local 30 member Darrell Nichols. The ILWU leaders joined nearly 50 of their counterparts from 11 countries...
by admin | Jun 2, 2016 | Featured, May 2016 Dispatcher, Political Action, Solidarity
Big rally in Portland Bernie Sanders’ decisive May 17 primary victory in Oregon was preceded by a May 3rd rally in Portland’s Shemanski Park that attracted more than 750 union members and community supporters. The rally was initially planned by Local 8 member Jeff...
by admin | May 2, 2016 | April 2016 Dispatcher, Featured, Solidarity
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 10, 2016 | Featured, February 2016 Dispatcher, Solidarity
Three Local 21 members were honored last month by the Port of Longview for rescuing a mariner who fell overboard into the Columbia River on December 31. The incident happened at 11 o’clock in the morning on New Year’s Eve day when it was still bitter cold at Berth 2...
by admin | Sep 20, 2015 | Featured, Solidarity
The Los Angeles Harbor Coalition’s Labor Day Parade attracted several thousand union workers, family members and community supporters. The annual parade and picnic started just a few blocks from the Local 13 dispatch hall and ended at Banning Park in= Wilmington for...
