by admin | Jun 5, 2019 | Featured, May 2019 Dispatcher
A record 83 ILWU members, officers, and staff who oversee local finances attended the Secretary-Treasurers Conference in Seattle on May 19-24. The five-day training used a combination of interactive exercises and presentations from experts to help participants...
by admin | May 15, 2019 | April 2019, Featured
The campaign to save good jobs and quality service provided by Alaska ferry workers continued in March and through April. Trouble started when the governor proposed slashing the state’s Marine Highway System budget by 75% – along with other vital services. Members of...
by admin | May 15, 2019 | April 2019, Featured
Sisters and Brothers of the ILWU, I would like to begin by thanking all of the officers and staff who are working so tirelessly to help the members of our union face some of the most challenging times in our history. We’re facing headwinds instead of tailwinds;...
by admin | May 4, 2019 | April 2019, Featured
A group of 86 Coast Longshore Division Caucus delegates gathered in San Francisco from April 8-12 to share information, discuss policy and get the latest news from the ILWU Coast Committee. Caucus meetings begin with the election of a Chair, Secretary, Parliamentarian...
by admin | May 3, 2019 | Featured
Hundreds of community members came out to support ILWU Local 10 on May Day to save good paying jobs at the Port of Oakland. Those jobs and the region’s shipping industry are under threat from a proposed development to build a new stadium for the Oakland...
by admin | Apr 17, 2019 | Featured, March 2019 Dispatcher, Solidarity
On March 13, production workers at San Francisco’s Anchor Steam brewery made history by voting to join the ILWU – becoming one of the first craft breweries to go union. The margin was 31-16 but the numbers increased two days later when service workers at the Anchor...
by admin | Apr 16, 2019 | Featured, Helping Our Community, March 2019 Dispatcher
When the critical public ferries operated by Alaska’s Marine Highway System (AMHS) came under attack this year, the Inlandboatmen’s Union (IBU) – the ILWU’s Marine Division – mobilized with community residents to fight back. The crisis came in mid-February when Alaska...
by admin | Apr 16, 2019 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs, March 2019 Dispatcher
Being one of the nation’s largest and most efficient ports has long been a source of pride, good jobs, and prosperity for working-class communities surrounding the mega-port complex of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Despite hard work that set cargo-handling records for...
by admin | Mar 12, 2019 | Featured, February 2018 Dispatcher
Workers who make one of the nation’s best-known craft beers – Anchor Steam – are organizing to join the ILWU. Their grassroots, home-grown campaign is filled with energy and attracting national headlines because craft brews are hot, profitable and popular with young...
by admin | Mar 6, 2019 | Featured, February 2019 Dispatcher, Remembering Our History
Fred Pecker, who led Local 6 members through difficult times by helping workers organize, win strikes and fight for immigrant rights, passed on December 20, 2018, following a battle with pancreatic cancer. Challenging times Pecker joined the ILWU in 1985 after getting...
