by Roy San Filippo | Feb 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
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...
by Roy San Filippo | Dec 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
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,...
by admin | Dec 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
by admin | Aug 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
by admin | May 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
by admin | Mar 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
