by admin | Feb 9, 2022 | Book review
Book review Book review Herb Mills: A Tribute (Euclid Avenue Press, 2021) Former Local 10 Secretary-Treasurer Herb Mills is the subject of a biography published in 2021 that chronicles the life of this longshore leader and working-class intellectual whose activism...
by admin | Feb 9, 2022 | Featured
Featured WE ARE THE ILWU: Local 29, SAN DIEGO, CA ILWU Local 29 in San Diego, CA is one of several small port locals that are multi-charter. The local represents both marine clerks and longshore workers. “In San Diego, we have 25 marine clerks, 110 Class A longshore...
by admin | Feb 9, 2022 | Featured, In memoriam
Featured In memoriam Warren Shelton, Local 46 President passes away ILWU Local 46 President Warren Shelton passed away suddenly on December 30, 2021. Warren was widely known in the union as a dedicated labor leader who cared deeply about the ILWU and its members....
by admin | Feb 9, 2022 | Featured
Featured Transportation Secretary tours ports, thanks ILWU leaders and workers for delivering through pandemic U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg met with ILWU leaders, port officials, and area lawmakers and toured the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach...
by admin | Feb 2, 2022 | Featured, In memoriam
Featured In memoriam Rose Tyner, former member of Locals 10 and 91 Rosa Mae Tyner, a 23-year ILWU worker and a member of Locals 10 and 91, passed away on October 9, 2021 in Troy, AL at the age of 67. She was born in Troy, AL on Feb. 16, 1954, and was the youngest of...
by admin | Feb 1, 2022 | Featured
Featured Harry Bridges Center marks continued growth of Labor Studies with Annual Awards Celebration More than 100 students, faculty, and members of the ILWU community convened in November for the Annual Awards Celebration hosted by the Harry Bridges Center for Labor...
by admin | Jan 7, 2022 | Events, Featured
Events Featured Members of Locals 20 and 30 attend stewards training intensive Strong unions need strong stewards. As rank-and-file volunteers, stewards ensure that the contract is upheld and that important information is shared between members and the union...
by admin | Jan 7, 2022 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs
Featured Fighting for Good Jobs Local 8 ULP Strike Urges Overseas Employer to Drop Baseless Lawsuit Portland Longhore workers stand up to Japanese company Columbia Export Terminal to drop baseless, $15 million lawsuit against 150 local grainhandlers Pacific Northwest...
by admin | Jan 5, 2022 | Featured, Organizing
Featured Organizing ILWU members at OIA Global ratify first contract Members of ILWU Local 63 OCU unanimously ratified their first collective bargaining agreement with OIA Global (OIA) on December 3rd. This is the first-ever freight forwarding company be unionized....
by admin | Jan 3, 2022 | Featured, Helping Our Community
Giving is a tradition: ILWU’s 24th Annual Feed the Community DayJanuary 3, 2022 11:51 am The Southern California ILWU’s 24th Annual Feed the Community Day, sponsored by Locals 13, 63, and 94, So Cal Pensioners, Auxiliary 8, and the ILWU Credit Union, provided 1,500...
