by admin | Aug 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
International Longshore and Warehouse Union International Executive Board Vancouver, British Columbia August 17 – 18, 2017 STATEMENT OF POLICY ON DONALD TRUMP President Trump’s reaction to the protests and violence in Charlottesville, Virginia is so unacceptable, so...
by admin | Aug 4, 2017 | Uncategorized
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (August 4, 2017) – The ILWU’s Coast Balloting Committee confirmed today that West Coast longshore workers at 29 ports in California, Oregon and Washington have officially ratified a three-year contract extension with the Pacific Maritime Association...
by admin | Aug 4, 2017 | Uncategorized
Longtime Portland labor and social justice advocate Lois Stranahan, passed on May 17 at the age of 97. She was born and raised on a farm in Arkansas where she played the fiddle in a family band with her five siblings.” Like many of her generation, she migrated from...
by admin | Aug 4, 2017 | Featured, Uncategorized
2016 was a busy year of ILWU organizing activity on the docks of Hawaii. A new Matson clerical unit was organized into Local 142, and a charter was granted to ILWU Local 100 to create a home for four newly-organized units of longshore supervisors who came into the...
by admin | Aug 3, 2017 | Uncategorized
A new five-year contract has been ratified covering 77 members of ILWU Local 20 who work on a private dock at the Port of Los Angeles where they load and process materials mined at Rio Tinto’s giant borate mine and plant in the Mojave Desert that employs over 500...
