ILWU Library and Archives
The ILWU Archives houses a digital collection of all the issues of The Dispatcher newspaper, Voice of the Federation, and the Waterfont Worker.
The Docker Podcast
Produced and hosted by rank and file longshore workers who take on issues about local, national, and international labor struggles. The views expressed do not represent the ILWU or its affiliates.
Alcatraz City Cruises workers strike
Four-hour Unfair Labor Practices strike underscores worker frustration with ‘employer stalling tactics’ Workers at Alcatraz Cruises represented by...
ILWU members gather to honor fallen workers on 90th Anniversary of ‘First Blood’
On May 15, more than 400 ILWU members, pensioners, and officers from Locals 13, 63, 63-OCU, 94, 26, 56, Inlandboatmen’s Union, the LA Port Police,...
A new podcast, Organize the Unorganized, tells the story of the CIO
Despite an exciting year of strikes and labor activity, union density more or less stayed flat in 2023 at 10%, and it remains at a dismal 6% in the...
ILWU, community coalition, defeats proposed baseball stadium on Oakland waterfront
Stadium redevelopment project posed threat to waterfront jobs and regional economic engine By Melvin MackayLocal 10 In late 2018, the Oakland A’s,...
UW conference on international workers’ rights Friday, March 8
Friday, March 8 10:00am – 4:00pm
Parrington Hall, Forum (Room 309) University of Washington, Seattle campus
Recycling workers will expose the “dirty secrets” behind East Bay recycling operations
On Saturday February 2nd, hundreds of recycling workers will gather in Oakland to expose a host of serious problems to an audience of elected officials and policy makers who oversee this supposedly “green” industry
