by admin | Mar 16, 2020 | COVID-19 Updates, Uncategorized
TO: ILWU Coast Longshore Division LocalsFROM: William E. Adams, International PresidentSUBJECT: Industry UpdateDATE: March 13, 2020 I am reaching out to acknowledge the challenging times that we are in and to invoke the strength and humanity of the ILWU family as we...
by admin | Mar 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
Union supporters win big in Berkeley & lead SF count despite company’s anti-union effort SAN FRANCISCO – Workers at the Bay Area’s famous Tartine bakery outlets held union elections yesterday and today where they voted in favor of forming unions. Yesterday’s vote...
by admin | Mar 10, 2020 | COVID-19 Updates, Uncategorized
By HAYLEY MUNGUIA PUBLISHED: March 8, 2020 at 9:17 a.m. | UPDATED: March 9, 2020 at 4:06 a.m. While the cruise industry takes a beating over the coronavirus, some passengers disembarking the Carnival Panorama on Sunday morning...
by admin | Mar 10, 2020 | COVID-19 Updates, Uncategorized
San Francisco, CA (March 6, 2020)—The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) issued the following joint statement today in response to the impact of the spread of the coronavirus on dockworkers and...
by admin | Mar 9, 2020 | COVID-19 Updates, Uncategorized
By FIONA KELLIHER | fkelliher@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group PUBLISHED: March 9, 2020 at 7:55 a.m. | UPDATED: March 9, 2020 at 1:14 p.m. After days at sea and amid rising panic over coronavirus, the Grand Princess cruise...
by admin | Mar 4, 2019 | Featured, February 2019 Dispatcher, Uncategorized
Sitting in his office, newly elected ILWU Local 34 President Keith Shanklin recalls the first time that he saw the working waterfront. “I remember going to an amusement park in Long Beach called the Pike which had a view of the Port,” Shanklin said. He remembered...
