by admin | Jun 13, 2011 | Featured, June 2011 Dispatcher, Remembering Our History
Over two hundred ILWU members, community supporters and labor activists gathered at the University of Washington campus in Seattle to celebrate the lives of Gene Viernes and Silme Domingo, two young, reform-minded officers of Local 37 who were assassinated in...
by admin | Jun 12, 2011 | Featured, June 2011 Dispatcher, Solidarity, Take Action
In 2009, ILWU members and Teamsters joined the Dutch dockers union at a demonstration outside of the Transamerica tower in San Francisco’s financial district. The Dutch dockers’ union, known as FNV Bondgenoten, was demanding the return of pension money from the giant...
by admin | Jun 7, 2011 | Helping Our Community, June 2011 Dispatcher
Surrey, British Columbia – ILWU local 502 started raising funds for the Vancouver Children’s Hospital three months ago with a goal to at least raise $10,000. The goal was easily met. The response from everyone in the local was so overwhelming that a new target was set...
by admin | Jun 1, 2011 | Featured
By Robert McEllrath, International President, International Longshore and Warehouse Union Two million Americans and counting have been pressed through a system that was supposed to improve our national port security, but hasn’t. Those longshoremen, marine clerks,...
by admin | May 31, 2011 | Solidarity
Aegon, the company that owns Transamerica, is accused of looting a pension fund in Holland. In 2009, the Dutch dockers union (FNV) and employers came to San Francisco to demand that Aegon return the money. They are coming back for the remaining $400 million that’s...
