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: Inlandboatmen’s Union, SoCal Region
Editor’s note: The Dispatcher will be profiling ILWU Locals and Affiliates in the coming months. This profile of the IBU’s Southern California...
President’s message
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...
ILWU holds regional organizing talks
ILWU’s International Officers have launched a series of regional meetings aimed at sharpening the union’s approach to organizing
Gabriel Prawl, first African American President of ILWU Local 52
In January of this year, Gabriel Prawl was elected the first African-American President of the ILWU Clerks Local 52


