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.
Local 5 organizes new non-profit workplaces, announces new Non-Profit Division
Many workers find themselves drawn to non-profit workplaces because of a shared interest in supporting the organization’s mission, but at a certain point, workers also must take care of themselves. Against that backdrop, Local 5 has begun to develop a new division within the local: the Non-Profit Division.
ILWU, port community, gather to celebrate $110 million funding for future SoCal training center
he Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach Goods Movement Training Campus will provide a single and centralized location to attract, recruit, and retain workers in the goods movement sector. It is a partnership between the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the ILWU, the California Workforce Development Board, and the Pacific Maritime Association.
Third-generation longshore worker elected to Oxnard City Council
‘There are people out there struggling. We have to remember that when considering policy.’ Local 46 B-registrant Arthur Valenzuela, Jr., was...
ILWU, ITF, help to secure wages, safety of foreign seafarers in the Port of Tacoma
The actions of Jeff Engels, Puget Sound Inspector for the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF), with support and solidarity from members...


