by admin | Mar 10, 2020 | Featured, February 2020 Dispatcher
As 2019 drew to a close, U.S. Representative John Lewis of Georgia, released a brief statement that he had recently been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. “I have been in some kind of fight – for freedom, equality, basic human rights – for nearly my entire...
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 6, 2020 | Featured, February 2020 Dispatcher
Former ILWU International President David Arian who also served as Vice President of the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners was remembered one year after his passing with a ceremony that dedicated a street and bench in his honor on February 8th in San Pedro....
by admin | Mar 6, 2020 | Featured, February 2020 Dispatcher, Fighting for Good Jobs
A popular Bay Area bakery with loyal customers, delicious baked goods and dramatic expansion plans now has an overwhelming majority of workers organizing to join the ILWU. Tartine workers kicked-off their union campaign on February 6 when employees at each of the...
by admin | Mar 6, 2020 | Featured, February 2020 Dispatcher, Solidarity
For the first time in over a decade, ILWU Locals marched in a show of strength at the Los Angeles Kingdom Day parade to honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This year’s parade theme was “Equality For All Humanity, Our Next Step.” The three-mile...
by admin | Jan 31, 2020 | Featured, January 2020 Dispatcher
ILWU Local 5 was chartered on August 10, 2000, after a two-year organizing and contract campaign by 400 workers at Powell’s Books in Portland. The organizing effort began in 1998 when the company restructured jobs and significantly reduced raises for workers....
by admin | Jan 31, 2020 | Featured, January 2020 Dispatcher
The need for increased ILWU Political Action It is no secret that working families have much at stake in the 2020 U.S. Federal elections. On November 3rd, our nation will elect a President, 35 Senators, and 435 members of the House Representatives. If there was ever a...
by admin | Jan 30, 2020 | January 2020 Dispatcher
Last month’s Dispatcher reported that Anchor workers voted overwhelmingly to ratify their first union contract on December 20. With their victory secure, workers at the first craft brewery in America can share some of the factors behind their organizing victory. They...
by admin | Jan 30, 2020 | January 2020 Dispatcher
A team of auto-processors at San Francisco’s Pier 80 finally got their ILWU contract in January with Pasha Automotive after a lengthy three-year effort. Good contract with big raises Their contract that was signed on January 16th included significant raises, good...
by admin | Jan 30, 2020 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs, January 2020 Dispatcher
Organizing has been essential to the ILWU’s success since the founding of our union. It began with the militancy of west coast longshoremen, then inspired a march inland to organize warehouse and industrial workers. Across the Pacific, in Hawaii, the spark of...
