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...
by admin | Sep 20, 2015 | September 2015
Editors note: The following report submitted by the ILWU’s Panama Canal Division explains how members of the Panama Canal Pilots Union have been testing new equipment and procedures at the expanded canal which is expected to become operational soon. A total of 52...
by admin | Sep 20, 2015 | Featured, Solidarity
The Los Angeles Harbor Coalition’s Labor Day Parade attracted several thousand union workers, family members and community supporters. The annual parade and picnic started just a few blocks from the Local 13 dispatch hall and ended at Banning Park in= Wilmington for...
by admin | Sep 18, 2015 | In the News
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (September 18, 2015) – Longshore workers and marine clerks who have moved cargo at the Ports of Oakland and San Francisco since 1934 have rejected a developer’s plan to export coal through former Oakland Army Base. International Longshore and...
by admin | Aug 26, 2015 | Featured
In the late 1800s, when a cargo vessel entered the Puget Sound, it would take on longshoremen at its first port of call, then those men would remain on the ship to work the vessel at all ports in the area. In mid-June of 1886, the “Queen of the Pacific” put into...
