by admin | Jun 24, 2019 | Featured, June 2019 Dispatcher
Thanks to the ILWU, I’ve been able to pursue my passion as a jazz musician with performances in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the world. Learning from jazz giants My love for music – especially jazz – began at a young age. My Dad was a Local 34 Ship’s Clerk...
by admin | Jun 24, 2019 | Featured, June 2019 Dispatcher, Remembering Our History
One hundred years ago, a remarkable young man graduated from Rutgers University in the spring of 1919. At the time, Paul Leroy Robeson was only the third African-American allowed to enroll in the New Jersey campus during its 150-year existence. Robeson entered with an...
by admin | Jun 24, 2019 | June 2019 Dispatcher
Workers who prepare and process Tesla vehicles on San Francisco’s Pier 80 for shipment to Asia voted to join the ILWU in an election held on May 29 and certified by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in June. The effort dates back to a more ambitious plan...
by admin | Jun 24, 2019 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs
Eighteen months of difficult negotiations concluded on May 30 with a tentative agreement between ILWU Canada longshore workers and the British Columbia Maritime Employers’ Association (BCMEA). The proposed contract covers almost 7,000 dockworkers employed at...
by admin | Jun 5, 2019 | Featured, May 2019 Dispatcher
More than 100 union members, community leaders, friends and family came from as far as Hawaii, Alaska and Australia to Seattle’s Labor Temple on the evening of May 18 where they remembered and honored their departed brother, Alan Michael Coté, who led the...
