by admin | Jun 10, 2020 | Solidarity
Dockworkers all along the West Coast stopped work for nine minutes at 9 a.m. Tuesday morning, Jun 9, to honor George Floyd on the day he was being laid to rest. Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, was killed May 25, in Minneapolis when a white police officer kneeled on...
by admin | Jun 9, 2020 | Featured
Today thousands of American transport workers from the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) are stopping work and calling for justice for George Floyd and countless others who suffered before...
by admin | Jun 8, 2020 | Featured, Solidarity
ILWU dockworkers on the West Coast will stop work for nine minutes on Tuesday morning, June 9th, at 9 a.m. Pacific Time, to honor George Floyd who was brutally murdered by four Minneapolis Police officers on May 25th. “Our union has a long history of...
by admin | Jun 8, 2020 | Featured
ILWU International Secretary-Treasurer Ed Ferris and International Executive Board member Melvin Mackay were interviewed by local television station KHOU in Houston. Ferris and Mackay, along with Local 19 member Tyrone Harvey, traveled to Houston to attend the...
by admin | May 29, 2020 | Featured
May 29, 2020 Governor Tim Walz Office of the Governor 130 State Capitol 75 Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. St. Paul, MN 55155 Governor Walz, On behalf of the membership of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), I am writing to demand that the...
