United in Struggle: 2025 Young Workers Conference

More than 150 delegates and guests gathered at the Maritime Labour Centre in Vancouver, B.C., from September 10 to 12, for the sixth ILWU Young Workers Conference, which aimed to empower workers, foster leader[1]ship, and strengthen solidarity within the union. The...
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MUA hosts historic International First Nations Maritime Workers Conference

In July, the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) hosted the historic International First Nations Maritime Workers Conference in Sydney, Australia. The event brought together over 100 Indigenous unionists and allies from Chile, Hawai‘i, Canada, the U.S mainland., New...
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‘Workers over billionaires’: Thousands march in SoCal Labor Day event

With the unions under increased attack from the federal government, thousands of union members came together to honor labor and voice their opposition to the hostile policies of the Trump administration targeting workers’ rights, busting federal labor unions, and mass...
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Local 34 member Derrick Muhammad appointed to Oakland Port Commission

Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee appointed Local 34 member Derrick Muhammad to the Oakland Port Commission. His appointment was unanimously confirmed by the City Council on July 1. Muhammad is the first ILWU member to be appointed to the Oakland Port Commission. “This is the...
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ILWU Library and Archives

The ILWU Archives houses a digital collection of all the issues of The Dispatcher newspaper, Voice of the Federation, and the Waterfont Worker.

The Docker Podcast

Produced and hosted by rank and file longshore workers who take on issues about local, national, and international labor struggles. The views expressed do not represent the ILWU or its affiliates.

We Are the ILWU: Mainland Organizing Department

We Are the ILWU: Mainland Organizing Department

Jan 30, 2020

Organizing has been essential to the ILWU’s success since the founding of our union. It began with the militancy of west coast longshoremen, then inspired a march inland to organize warehouse and industrial workers.

President’s message

Dec 5, 2019

The struggles that the ILWU is facing have brought us to a watershed moment. We’re moving through a difficult storm in the path of our union’s rich...

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