In the News The ILWU and ICTSI Oregon, Inc. Reach Settlement of Long-Running Litigation ILWU / ICTSI – Joint Press Release SAN FRANCISCO, CA – February 1, 2024 – The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (“ILWU”) and ICTSI Oregon, Inc. (“ICTSI”) today jointly...
Book review Former Dispatcher staff member publishes new history of America’s news criers DiGirolamo, Vincent. Crying the News: A History of America’s Newsboys. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 698 pp. $36.95. (Hardcover) Vincent DiGirolamo,...
ILWU says Congress must uphold collective bargaining in railroad negotiations Pres. Adams says profitable private railroad companies, not workers, have brought the country to the brink of a strike: “Warren Buffet can afford to pay wages for railroad workers who get...
ILWU Local 5 raises money for striking Alabama coal minersAugust 19, 2022 3:25 pm In 2010, when our ILWU Local 30 siblings at the Rio Tinto borax mine in Boron, CA were locked out by their employer, ILWU Local 5 hosted its first ever “Drinking for Miners’’ event. A...
Uncategorized ILWU elected officials give unprecedented interview with Port of L.A.’s Gene Seroka ILWU International President Willie Adams and Coast Committeeman Frank Ponce De Leon gave an unprecedented, pre-negotiations interview with Port of Los Angeles Executive...
Max Vekich, a retired member of ILWU Local 52, was sworn in during a virtual ceremony as the fifth member of the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) on February 15. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate by a 51-43 vote on February 10. Commissioner Vekich was first...
