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.
Newest automation plan hits a nerve with LA Port communities
Being one of the nation’s largest and most efficient ports has long been a source of pride, good jobs, and prosperity for working-class communities...
Anchor workers organize at craft brewery
Workers who make one of the nation’s best-known craft beers – Anchor Steam – are organizing to join the ILWU
Fred Pecker: passionate “rebel with a cause” led Local 6 through successful organizing campaigns
Fred Pecker, who led Local 6 members through difficult times, passed on December 20, 2018, following a battle with pancreatic cancer.
30 ILWU members attend 8th annual ‘Women Build Nations’ conference in Seattle
A record number of rank and- file women attended last year’s “Women Build Nations” conference in Seattle on October 12-14


