by admin | Dec 9, 2022 | Featured
International Seafarers Center, a safety net for mariners, seeks secure funding stream The International Seafarers Center (ISC), located in the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex, is a non-profit organization with a mission to provide a home away from home for...
by admin | Dec 9, 2022 | Events
Meet the Authors! Join authors Harvey Schwartz and Robert Cherny for a special online event celebrating two new books on the ILWU: Labor Under Siege, Bob McEllrath and the ILWU’s Fight for Organized Labor in an Anti-Union Era & Harry Bridges, Labor...
by admin | Dec 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
ILWU says Congress must uphold collective bargaining in railroad negotiations Pres. Adams says profitable private railroad companies, not workers, have brought the country to the brink of a strike: “Warren Buffet can afford to pay wages for railroad workers who get...
by admin | Oct 26, 2022 | Featured
Featured Local 56 Ship Scalers reach tentative agreement with NRC Environmental Services Local 56 Ship Scalers and Painters Union has worked in the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach for decades providing vessel and tank maintenance, oil recovery, and other hazardous...
by admin | Oct 25, 2022 | Featured
Local 7’s years-long efforts pay off with new regular cargo service Pensioners lend their knowledge as Bellingham recovers from 20-year downturn When the Blue Everton bulk carrier arrived at the Port of Bellingham on October 15 and Local 7 loaded the vessel...
by admin | Oct 25, 2022 | Featured
LEAD brings the ‘Heat & Hammer’ to train the next generation of ILWU leadersOctober 25, 2022 3:16 pm A diverse group of 100 rank-and-file members and elected leaders attended the ILWU’s Leadership, Education and Development (LEAD) training in...
by admin | Aug 19, 2022 | Solidarity
ILWU Local 5 raises money for striking Alabama coal minersAugust 19, 2022 3:25 pm In 2010, when our ILWU Local 30 siblings at the Rio Tinto borax mine in Boron, CA were locked out by their employer, ILWU Local 5 hosted its first ever “Drinking for Miners’’ event. A...
by admin | Aug 19, 2022 | Featured
ILWU activists flock to Labor Notes conference amid labor movement resurgenceAugust 19, 2022 2:39 pm On Juneteenth weekend, more than 70 rank-and-file ILWU members joined with 4,000 other labor activists at the Labor Notes conference in Chicago. The event featured...
by admin | Jul 25, 2022 | Featured
Featured Jim Norton: “Union Man” On January 18, the ILWU lost a brilliant, dedicated, and humble mentor, Jim Norton. Brought up in a decidedly working-class community, Jim was a lifelong union man and one of the best leaders ever produced by ILWU Local 23. He was a...
by admin | Jul 8, 2022 | Featured
Featured Diversity is strength: ILWU’s first Annual Women, Trans, and Non-binary Workers’ Conference The ILWU held the First Annual Women, Trans, and Non-binary Workers’ Conference on April 26 and 30. The event was held online over Zoom. The conference was the result...
