by admin | Jan 10, 2016 | February 2016 Dispatcher
The strikingly tall, lanky figure of Ralph Rooker, who was a regular fixture at Local 10’s dispatch hall and Longshore Caucus meetings for more than five decades, passed on December 19, 2015 in San Francisco, the city where he was born in 1940. Rooker came to...
by admin | Dec 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
This holiday season, unions are again calling on one of the world’s largest jewellery retailers to clean up its supplier of diamonds. They are urging Signet to demand that multinational mining and metals giant Rio Tinto respect workers’ rights, indigenous peoples and...
by admin | Dec 3, 2015 | December 2015 Dispatcher, Featured, Uncategorized
A report by Dan McKisson, Local 19 and Rich Austin, Pensioner President McEllrath assigned us to attend the 2015 Single-Payer Strategy Conference in Chicago, IL on October 30 – November 1, 2015. The conference was a collaborative effort involving Labor Campaign...
by admin | Dec 3, 2015 | December 2015 Dispatcher, Featured
Members of the Inlandboatmen’s Union of the Pacific (IBU), the ILWU’s Marine Division, won a significant settlement in October from Delta Western, an affiliate of Saltchuk Resources, Inc. Delta Western operates several west coast fuel docks, including a facility in...
by admin | Dec 3, 2015 | December 2015 Dispatcher, Featured
The 23rd convention of the Inlandboatmen’s Union (IBU) met in Seattle on November 4-6 and committed to bold steps that will boost organizing and training. Elected delegates heard from a variety of speakers, participated in panel discussions, and joined debates,...
by admin | Nov 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
Nov. 6, 2015ILWU Brothers and Sisters: As you know, politicians have been publicly and inaccurately blaming congestion at the ports on those of us who work on the docks. They are opportunistically using industry-caused congestion as an excuse to introduce legislation...
by admin | Oct 29, 2015 | Featured, Helping Our Community, October 2015 Dispatcher
Local 26 member David Gonzales is leading an impressive but quiet effort with other volunteers in Wilmington who serve hundreds of meals each week to homeless and hungry people in the harbor area. “I know what it’s like to be on the streets because I was there once...
by admin | Oct 21, 2015 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs, Helping Our Community, October 2015 Dispatcher
An overflow crowd at the Oakland City Council meeting on September 15 heard ILWU leaders taking passionate positions against a controversial coal export terminal that developers and coal industry lobbyists want to build on a private dock with public subsidies. Six...
by admin | Oct 21, 2015 | Featured, October 2015 Dispatcher
Members of ILWU Local 4 have joined forces with community and environmental allies to stop a scheme by big oil that could ruin their port, close the Columbia River and turn their city into a disaster area. Power play Documents show that officials from the Port of...
by admin | Oct 20, 2015 | Featured, September 2015
Over 200 ILWU pensioners, spouses and guests gathered in San Francisco for the 48th Annual Pacific Coast Pensioners Association (PCPA) convention on September 6-9. This year’s convention looked ahead to the upcoming Presidential election, discussed the need for single...
