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.
South Seattle intermodal workers win first ILWU contract through strategy, solidarity
Six months to the day after launching a fight to be union, chassis and container mechanics employed by P&B Intermodal at the BNSF South Seattle...
Local 4 member Rick Anderson retires, recalls activism and five generations on Vancouver’s waterfront
One of the most visible activists during the 2013 grain lockout at UGC in Vancouver, fourth-generation Local 4 member Rick Anderson, officially...
ILWU Statement on the Earthquake in Syria and Turkey
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union expresses our condolences and solidarity to all those in Turkey and Syria who were affected by the...
ILWU pensioner reflects on his 51-year career in Locals 13 and 94
James Gyerman describes backbreaking work of the 1950’s, working first container ship in 1960’s [In November, The Dispatcher sat down for an...


