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.
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
Keith Shanklin: Local 34’s first African-American president
Sitting in his office, newly elected ILWU Local 34 President Keith Shanklin recalls the first time that he saw the working waterfront.
ILWU members help LA Teachers win strike to improve public schools
Los Angeles teachers won a carefully-organized six-day strike in January that will deliver smaller class sizes, more nurses and counselors, and greater accountability of private charter schools in the nation’s second largest school system


