by admin | Apr 25, 2016 | Uncategorized
ILWU Local 13 member Vivian Malauulu scored an impressive election victory on April 12, defeating a well-connected incumbent and winning a seat on the Long Beach Community College Board of Trustees. Malauulu won nearly 60% of the tally – soundly defeating her...
by admin | Mar 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
Regan Keo is a respected member of Local 19 who has worked on Seattle’s waterfront for decades. But his profile increased dramatically earlier this year when word spread that his son, Shiloh, was playing for the Denver Broncos and heading for Super Bowl 50. “There was...
by admin | Mar 24, 2016 | Uncategorized
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The ILWU’s International Executive Board has voted to endorse U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders for President. “Bernie Sanders is the best candidate for America’s working families,” said ILWU International President Robert McEllrath. “Bernie is best on...
by admin | Mar 1, 2016 | Uncategorized
Longtime Local 34 and ILWU leader Richard Cavalli passed on January 14, 2016 at the age of 75. A native of Oakland, Cavalli was born on June 7, 1940 to his mother, Marion who was a nurse and father, Bud, was a longshoreman. After graduating from Castlemont High School...
by admin | Feb 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
When ILWU International Secretary Treasurer Willie Adams was unanimously elected President of the San Francisco Port Commission on January 20 with Vice President Kim Brandon, it marked the first time in the Port’s 152-year history that two African-Americans held both...
by admin | Jan 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
The strikingly tall, lanky figure of Ralph Rooker, who was a regular fixture at Local 10’s dispatch hall and Longshore Caucus meetings for more than five decades, passed on December 19, 2015 in San Francisco, the city where he was born in 1940. Rooker came to...
