ILWU members help Local 91 brother re-take his home

ILWU members help Local 91 brother re-take his home

Dexter Cato a member of ILWU Local 91 and a life-long resident of San Francisco’s Bayview Hunter’s Point, with the help of scores of community supporters including ILWU members, retook his home that had been foreclosed on by Wells Fargo in 2010. Cato and his family...
Frank Kennedy, key ILWU Canada leader

Frank Kennedy, key ILWU Canada leader

Hundreds of longshore workers, family and community members gathered at the Maritime Center in Vancouver on Sunday, March 4 to honor the life of ILWU leader Frank Kennedy who passed on February 18. ILWU Canada President Tom Dufresne was among the 18 speakers who...
65th annual convention at Local 6

65th annual convention at Local 6

  Dozens of delegates, pensioners and supporters gathered on Saturday, March 3 for the Local 6 65th annual convention in Oakland.  Disappearing jobs Decades of declining union manufacturing and warehousing jobs have put pressure on the proud Bay Area local that...