by admin | Aug 11, 2020 | Featured
Attacks on ILWU pensions, health care threaten America’s farmers and stability of industry, say sponsors of Grain Standards Reauthorization Act Two U.S. Senators directed harsh words at foreign-owned grain company officials during the AgricultureCommittee’s...
by admin | Aug 11, 2020 | Featured
The following history is based on a brief talk given by Harvey Schwartz at the Bloody Thursday Memorial presentations, Local 10, ILWU, San Francisco, July 5, 2019 Bloody Thursday—July 5, 1934—marked the turning point of the great West Coast maritime strike of 1934....
by admin | Aug 11, 2020 | Featured
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union joins millions of people across the country in mourning the death of Civil Rights icon and United States Congressman John Lewis. Our deepest condolences go out to his family, friends, and all of those whose lives were...
by admin | Aug 11, 2020 | Featured
Picnics were canceled this July 5 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but ILWU members and pensioners along the West Coast organized socially-distanced Bloody Thursday remembrances to honor the sacrifices of workers killed during the 1934 West Coast strike that led to...
by admin | Aug 5, 2020 | Featured
August 5, 2020 SAN FRANCISCO, CA (August 5, 2020) – International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) workers on the West Coast of the United States and Canada grieve the tremendous losses that Beirut is suffering following an explosion of stored material at a port...
