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...
by admin | Aug 26, 2015 | Featured, Take Action
Elections have serious consequences for ILWU members and their families – especially for ILWU longshore workers who recently found themselves being targeted by Republican members in Congress. Here’s how it happened. In 2014, Republicans took over the United States...
by admin | Aug 20, 2015 | Uncategorized
Members of the Maritime Union Australia, Queensland Branch in Brisbane recently recorded a solidarity message to the ILWU while on the picket line.
by admin | Aug 3, 2015 | Featured, June 2015 Dispatcher, Remembering Our History
Thirty-five years ago, the brutal murder of ILWU Local 37 officials Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes sent shock waves through Seattle and the international labor movement. Supporters spent decades gathering evidence of a high-level conspiracy that involved former...
by admin | Aug 3, 2015 | Featured, June 2015 Dispatcher, Solidarity
A diverse delegation of ILWU leaders joined hundreds of community supporters who marched to support workers at the Sakuma Brothers berry farm on July 11. The effort was organized to help a two-year struggle by Sakuma farmworkers against one of Washington State’s...
by admin | Aug 3, 2015 | Featured, June 2015 Dispatcher
Thousands of ILWU members, their families, community supporters and elected officials gathered at parks, cemeteries and union halls up and down the West Coast to mark the 81st anniversary of Bloody Thursday and pay respects to those who sacrificed their lives in 1934...
by admin | Jul 8, 2015 | Featured, May 2015 Dispatcher
Delegates to the ILWU’s 36th convention in Hawaii debated union policy and made plans for the future during five days of meetings that emphasized unity over differences. History & tradition The group of 360 delegates joined together with 35 ILWU Pensioner and...
