by admin | Aug 16, 2019 | Events, Featured, July/August 2019 Dispatcher, Remembering Our History
On June 18th, over 40 ILWU members, pensioners, and supporters gathered at the Ballantyne memorial at New Brighton Park in Vancouver, BC to commemorate the 84th anniversary of the Battle of Ballantyne Pier and remember the militant history of Vancouver waterfront...
by admin | Aug 16, 2019 | Featured, July/August 2019 Dispatcher
ILWU Local 7 Clerical workers at the Port of Bellingham have ratified a three-year contract that covers receptionists, clerks, accountants, secretaries, and operation specialists who work at Bellingham’s seaside port facilities and nearby airport until 2022. The...
by admin | Aug 15, 2019 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs, July/August 2019 Dispatcher
By late 2018, the Inlandboatmen’s Union of the Pacific had been bargaining for 2 years to secure a contract for 400 workers at the Alaska Marine Highway System. The IBU represents the largest group of employees among several unions that represent public ferry system...
by admin | Aug 12, 2019 | Featured
ILWU International President Willie Adams traveled to Australia meet with wharfies at DP World in a strong show of international solidarity for the Maritime Union of Australia’s fight against outsourcing, automation, and threats of job cuts. “Actions speak...
by admin | Jun 24, 2019 | June 2019 Dispatcher
The assault on American workers by employers, government and the courts has increased recently, making it more difficult to organize and negotiate contracts, At the same time, sympathy toward unions from the general public has also increased – along with growing...
by admin | Jun 24, 2019 | Featured, June 2019 Dispatcher
Thanks to the ILWU, I’ve been able to pursue my passion as a jazz musician with performances in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the world. Learning from jazz giants My love for music – especially jazz – began at a young age. My Dad was a Local 34 Ship’s Clerk...
by admin | Jun 24, 2019 | Featured, June 2019 Dispatcher, Remembering Our History
One hundred years ago, a remarkable young man graduated from Rutgers University in the spring of 1919. At the time, Paul Leroy Robeson was only the third African-American allowed to enroll in the New Jersey campus during its 150-year existence. Robeson entered with an...
by admin | Jun 24, 2019 | June 2019 Dispatcher
Workers who prepare and process Tesla vehicles on San Francisco’s Pier 80 for shipment to Asia voted to join the ILWU in an election held on May 29 and certified by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in June. The effort dates back to a more ambitious plan...
by admin | Jun 24, 2019 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs
Eighteen months of difficult negotiations concluded on May 30 with a tentative agreement between ILWU Canada longshore workers and the British Columbia Maritime Employers’ Association (BCMEA). The proposed contract covers almost 7,000 dockworkers employed at...
by admin | Jun 5, 2019 | Featured, May 2019 Dispatcher
More than 100 union members, community leaders, friends and family came from as far as Hawaii, Alaska and Australia to Seattle’s Labor Temple on the evening of May 18 where they remembered and honored their departed brother, Alan Michael Coté, who led the...
