by admin | Jul 13, 2020 | Featured
“I can’t breathe.” These three words seemingly can’t get out of my head. Quite honestly, they have haunted me ever since I witnessed the recent public police execution of George Floyd on May 25, 2020. That is the day that former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin...
by admin | Jul 13, 2020 | Featured
With the Covid-19 pandemic raging in the United States, the ILWU International Executive Board met June 18th via video conferencing. Instead of presenting their reports on the video call, Executive Board, members submitted their reports two weeks beforehand. Board...
by admin | Jul 13, 2020 | Featured
This is a movement!” said ILWU International President Willie Adams, who was invited to speak from the back of a flatbed truck by Local 10 and 34 leaders as thousands of marchers assembled to commemorate Juneteenth on a sunny morning outside the Port of Oakland’s SSA...
by admin | Jun 24, 2020 | Featured
WASHINGTON, DC – Two U.S. Senators directed harsh words today at foreign-owned grain company officials during the Agriculture Committee’s markup of the Grain Standards Reauthorization Act. Ranking Democrat Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) said, “I have heard troubling...
