by admin | Oct 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
For the first time, the women of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) organized a conference designed to honor and inspire women to step up into union leadership. More than 100 women from the Southern California longshore and warehouse divisions of...
by admin | Oct 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
In July, 450 workers at the Bayer pharmaceutical plant in Berkeley, CA. heard that that the giant German-based corporation was planning to make layoffs. Within weeks, 29 employees were escorted out of the plant where ILWU Local 6 members have been working since the...
by admin | Oct 7, 2010 | Featured
Since its beginnings in 1537, Peru’s Port of Callao has been flattened by earthquakes and tidal waves, burned by pirates, used as a wartime military fortress, bombed by Spain and occupied by Chile. After each disaster, Callao was rebuilt and continues to be South...
by admin | Aug 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
Workers and family members who are fighting to save good jobs at the Tesoro Refinery in Wilmington, CA gathered at Banning Park on August 8th to have a good time – and celebrate their unity and determination to win. Two dozen ILWU members belonging to Local 13’s...
by admin | Aug 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
ILWU officers joined delegates representing millions of workers at the 42nd Congress of the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) that was held in Mexico City on August 5-12. The scale of the event was huge with over one thousand delegates from nearly 400...
by admin | Aug 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
In its continued solidarity effort to assist Costa Rican longshore workers, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) filed a petition with the Obama Administration against the government of Costa Rica under the Dominican Republic – Central American Free...
by admin | Jul 24, 2010 | Uncategorized
Coast Committeemen Ray Ortiz, Jr. and Leal Sundet met with Peruvian Congressman Luis Negreiros in June to discuss the ongoing attack on union rights in Peru, which is part of an unsettling trend in Latin American ports. One by one, publicly owned ports are being...
by admin | Jul 24, 2010 | Uncategorized
This past June 19th the Mexican miner’s union (Los Mineros) held a National Forum in the town of Cananea, in Mexico’s northern State of Sonora. Chuck Kennedy of ILWU Local 30, himself a miner from Boron, summed up the spirit at the forum, saying: “These miners could...
by admin | Jul 24, 2010 | Uncategorized
Hundreds of ILWU members and families marched on June 19th in Vancouver, Canada to honor the 75th anniversary of a valiant battle by 5,000 longshore workers who were attacked with tear gas and beaten by police on horseback at the Ballantyne docks in 1935. A monument...
