by admin | Feb 11, 2011 | February 2011 Dispatcher, Solidarity
Workers in Egypt have played a decisive and under-reported role in helping topple Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak. Union members in textile plants, post offices, sanitation services and the Suez Canal organized job actions across the country on February 9th –...
by admin | Feb 8, 2011 | Featured, February 2011 Dispatcher
Pier 84 at San Francisco’s Islais Creek is home to an aging crane that a coalition of environmentalists and labor groups are trying to preserve. It is the last remaining piece of machinery in the Port of San Francisco that was hand operated by longshoremen working...
by admin | Feb 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
The life of ILWU Local 34 and Lincoln Brigade member Nate Thornton will be honored on Saturday, March 6 in Berkeley. Please join us and share your memories of Nate. Saturday, March 6 at 2 PM Finnish Hall 1819 10th ST Berkeley CA
by admin | Feb 3, 2011 | Fighting for Good Jobs
Let’s support the struggle for justice by Rite Aid workers! Rite Aid, the nation’s third-largest retail drug chain, has been struggling financially for years. Yet, despite management’s serious and costly mistakes – which have left the company deeply in debt – Rite Aid...
by admin | Feb 3, 2011 | Helping Our Community
ILWU Local 13 recently became a sponsor of 22 Southern California museums. The first “fully sponsored” episode of California Adventure TV sponsored by Local 13 members recently aired on KCAL 9. Local 13 is proud to support education and the arts in in Southern...
by admin | Jan 28, 2011 | Allies, Solidarity
Manny Armenta, a sub-district director for the United Steelworkers (USW) in Albuquerque, NM, was arrested on January 24, while on his way to meet with attorneys for the Mexican mineworkers’ union, Los Mineros. The USW has been supporting the mineworkers who...
by admin | Jan 26, 2011 | Solidarity
Representatives of the ICEM (International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers’ Unions) are meeting this week in San Francisco, CA at an event hosted by the ILWU. The ICEM is a global federation of trade unions representing composed of 467...
by admin | Jan 25, 2011 | June 2010 Dispatcher, Remembering Our History
ILWU pensioners Herb Mills from Local 10 and Nick Granich from Local 34 attended a ceremony at San Francisco’s City Hall on May 13th, 2010, marking the 50th anniversary of a protest by students and trade unionists that changed history. In 1960, the United States was...
by admin | Jan 21, 2011 | Events
ILWU Locals 13, 63, and 94 invite you to attend… A special screening of the new documentary film about ILWU members by Joan Sekler “LOCKED OUT: THE STORY OF THE BORON MINERS’ STRUGGLE” Wednesday, February 16th at the Warner Grand Theatre 478 W. 6th...
by admin | Jan 21, 2011 | Events
Twelve-year-old Francisco Gaskin compares the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., and Harry Bridges and the longstanding support of ILWU Local 10 members to the civil rights struggle and to honorary Local 10 member, Martin Luther King Jr. The speech was given on...
