by Roy San Filippo | Jun 11, 2024 | Featured
Featured ILWU-PMA Maintenance and Repair Training Center in the Port of Los Angeles opens President Adams says the facility is just the beginning; ILWU will hold PMA to its promise for M&R training facilities in Oakland and Puget Sound/Columbia River ILWU...
by Roy San Filippo | Jun 11, 2024 | Featured
Featured Logistics workers use supply chain power to win Two hundred workers at Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics in Tacoma join ILWU with grit, determination, and solidarity “Our union makes us strong!” After paralyzing their employer with a massive strike in February,...
by Roy San Filippo | Jun 1, 2024 | Featured, Organizing
Featured Organizing Alcatraz City Cruises workers strike Four-hour Unfair Labor Practices strike underscores worker frustration with ‘employer stalling tactics’ Workers at Alcatraz Cruises represented by the Inlandboatmen’s Union of the Pacific (IBU), the Marine...
by Roy San Filippo | May 15, 2024 | Featured
Featured ILWU members gather to honor fallen workers on 90th Anniversary of ‘First Blood’ On May 15, more than 400 ILWU members, pensioners, and officers from Locals 13, 63, 63-OCU, 94, 26, 56, Inlandboatmen’s Union, the LA Port Police, and Federated Auxiliary 8...
by Roy San Filippo | May 11, 2024 | In the News
A new podcast, Organize the Unorganized, tells the story of the CIO Despite an exciting year of strikes and labor activity, union density more or less stayed flat in 2023 at 10%, and it remains at a dismal 6% in the private sector. As unions have declined in size and...
by Roy San Filippo | Apr 8, 2024 | Featured
Featured ILWU, community coalition, defeats proposed baseball stadium on Oakland waterfront Stadium redevelopment project posed threat to waterfront jobs and regional economic engine By Melvin MackayLocal 10 In late 2018, the Oakland A’s, the Mayor of Oakland,...
by Roy San Filippo | Apr 8, 2024 | Events, Featured
Events Featured ILWU Canada’s International Women’s Day Event By Jessica Isbister3rd Vice President, ILWU Canada In 2023 there was a letter circulated advertising leadership training for trade union women. At this time a local union official asked the question: What...
by Roy San Filippo | Apr 8, 2024 | Featured
Featured Local 23’s ‘Celebration of Black History and Labor’ event revives Tacoma longshore tradition ILWU Local 23 celebrated Black History Month by holding an event titled “A Celebration of Black History and Labor” on February 18 at Tacoma’s Foss Waterway...
by Roy San Filippo | Apr 8, 2024 | Featured, Organizing
Featured Organizing Four Seasons warehouse workers sworn in as members of Local 29-A after ratifying first contract Substantial gains won after three-year organizing battle, help and solidarity from ILWU members across Southern California Five new members of ILWU...
by Roy San Filippo | Feb 1, 2024 | In the News
In the News The ILWU and ICTSI Oregon, Inc. Reach Settlement of Long-Running Litigation ILWU / ICTSI – Joint Press Release SAN FRANCISCO, CA – February 1, 2024 – The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (“ILWU”) and ICTSI Oregon, Inc. (“ICTSI”) today jointly...
