by admin | Mar 29, 2016 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs, March 2016 Dispatcher
Americans are beginning to dump our throw-away economy. Curbside recycling is now available in most west coast communities and more than 9,000 cities across America. It’s helping to divert one-third of our waste that used to be burned or buried. Recycling is also good...
by admin | Mar 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
Regan Keo is a respected member of Local 19 who has worked on Seattle’s waterfront for decades. But his profile increased dramatically earlier this year when word spread that his son, Shiloh, was playing for the Denver Broncos and heading for Super Bowl 50. “There was...
by admin | Mar 29, 2016 | Featured, March 2016 Dispatcher
PUUNENE, Maui – At its peak, sugar was the number one industry in Hawaii with hundreds of thousands of acres under cultivation on Kauai, Oahu, Maui and Hawaii island. By 2015, only Maui’s Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company (HC&S) remained of the industry once...
by admin | Mar 29, 2016 | Featured, March 2016 Dispatcher
The ILWU Canada Leadership Course held on February 14-19 at Harrison Hot Springs in British Columbia, was a tremendous success. Our class was bursting at the seams with 26 participants who attended from ILWU Canada Locals 502, 505, 508, 514, 517, Grain Workers Union...
by admin | Mar 24, 2016 | Uncategorized
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The ILWU’s International Executive Board has voted to endorse U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders for President. “Bernie Sanders is the best candidate for America’s working families,” said ILWU International President Robert McEllrath. “Bernie is best on...
by admin | Mar 10, 2016 | Featured, February 2016 Dispatcher, Solidarity
Three Local 21 members were honored last month by the Port of Longview for rescuing a mariner who fell overboard into the Columbia River on December 31. The incident happened at 11 o’clock in the morning on New Year’s Eve day when it was still bitter cold at Berth 2...
by admin | Mar 10, 2016 | Featured, February 2016 Dispatcher
The recent San Francisco Ship Clerk’s union election has resulted in a new generation of Local 34 officers, including their first Mexican-American President, David Gonzales – and Vice President Jeanette Walker-Peoples – who is the first woman and first African...
by admin | Mar 10, 2016 | Featured, February 2016 Dispatcher
On January 28-29, a delegation of union officers from the Inlandboatmen’s Union (IBU) and ILWU toured the Job Corps Seamanship Academy at Tongue Point in Astoria, Oregon. ILWU International Secretary-Treasurer Willie Adams, IBU President Alan Coté, IBU...
by admin | Mar 1, 2016 | February 2016 Dispatcher
Longtime Local 34 and ILWU leader Richard Cavalli passed on January 14, 2016 at the age of 75. A native of Oakland, Cavalli was born on June 7, 1940 to his mother, Marion who was a nurse and father, Bud, was a longshoreman. After graduating from Castlemont High School...
by admin | Feb 10, 2016 | February 2016 Dispatcher
When ILWU International Secretary Treasurer Willie Adams was unanimously elected President of the San Francisco Port Commission on January 20 with Vice President Kim Brandon, it marked the first time in the Port’s 152-year history that two African-Americans held both...
