by Roy San Filippo | Feb 9, 2023 | Featured
Featured We are the ILWU: Local 1000 Home Healthcare Operators, Hawai’i The ILWU’s newest local, Local 1000 Home Health Care Operators, was chartered in September of 2022 and currently represents approximately 125 members in the State of Hawai’i. These workers operate...
by Roy San Filippo | Feb 8, 2023 | Featured
Featured South Seattle intermodal workers win first ILWU contract through strategy, solidarity Six months to the day after launching a fight to be union, chassis and container mechanics employed by P&B Intermodal at the BNSF South Seattle Intermodal Facility in...
by Roy San Filippo | Feb 7, 2023 | Featured
Featured Local 4 member Rick Anderson retires, recalls activism and five generations on Vancouver’s waterfront One of the most visible activists during the 2013 grain lockout at UGC in Vancouver, fourth-generation Local 4 member Rick Anderson, officially retired in...
by Roy San Filippo | Feb 7, 2023 | Featured, From the Titled Officers
Featured From the Titled Officers ILWU Statement on the Earthquake in Syria and Turkey The International Longshore and Warehouse Union expresses our condolences and solidarity to all those in Turkey and Syria who were affected by the devastating earthquake on February...
by Roy San Filippo | Dec 30, 2022 | Featured
Featured ILWU pensioner reflects on his 51-year career in Locals 13 and 94 James Gyerman describes backbreaking work of the 1950’s, working first container ship in 1960’s [In November, The Dispatcher sat down for an extended interview with ILWU pensioner James...
by Roy San Filippo | Dec 29, 2022 | Featured
IBU rallies at L.A. Harbor Commission to save good jobs Scores of union members from the Inlandboatmen’s Union of the Pacific (IBU) and other divisions of the ILWU rallied in front of the Los Angeles Harbor Commission on December 15 to raise awareness about the impact...
by Roy San Filippo | Dec 28, 2022 | Book review
Book review Former Dispatcher staff member publishes new history of America’s news criers DiGirolamo, Vincent. Crying the News: A History of America’s Newsboys. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 698 pp. $36.95. (Hardcover) Vincent DiGirolamo,...
by Roy San Filippo | Dec 28, 2022 | Featured
Featured Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies celebrates 30 years of building labor movement through scholarships and education Graduate says Bridges Center taught her ‘what many others from union families learn about at the dinner table’ about ILWU history On...
by Roy San Filippo | Dec 28, 2022 | Featured
Featured Feed the Community Day marks 25 years of generous Thanksgiving dinners ILWU volunteers included a delicious pie for Harbor-area families in need of holiday cheer; say volunteering is ‘heartbeat of this union’ The Southern California ILWU’s Feed the...
by admin | Dec 9, 2022 | Featured
ILWU delegation travels to Australia to celebrate MUA’s 150th anniversary Australian Prime Minister thanks MUA for ‘fighting for the aspirations of working people’ A diverse delegation of ILWU members attended the 150th Anniversary of the Maritime Union of...
