by Roy San Filippo | Jun 11, 2024 | Featured
Featured Logistics workers use supply chain power to win Two hundred workers at Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics in Tacoma join ILWU with grit, determination, and solidarity “Our union makes us strong!” After paralyzing their employer with a massive strike in February,...
by Roy San Filippo | Jun 1, 2024 | Featured, Organizing
Featured Organizing Alcatraz City Cruises workers strike Four-hour Unfair Labor Practices strike underscores worker frustration with ‘employer stalling tactics’ Workers at Alcatraz Cruises represented by the Inlandboatmen’s Union of the Pacific (IBU), the Marine...
by Roy San Filippo | May 15, 2024 | Featured
Featured ILWU members gather to honor fallen workers on 90th Anniversary of ‘First Blood’ On May 15, more than 400 ILWU members, pensioners, and officers from Locals 13, 63, 63-OCU, 94, 26, 56, Inlandboatmen’s Union, the LA Port Police, and Federated Auxiliary 8...
by Roy San Filippo | May 11, 2024 | In the News
A new podcast, Organize the Unorganized, tells the story of the CIO Despite an exciting year of strikes and labor activity, union density more or less stayed flat in 2023 at 10%, and it remains at a dismal 6% in the private sector. As unions have declined in size and...
by Roy San Filippo | Apr 8, 2024 | Featured
Featured ILWU, community coalition, defeats proposed baseball stadium on Oakland waterfront Stadium redevelopment project posed threat to waterfront jobs and regional economic engine By Melvin MackayLocal 10 In late 2018, the Oakland A’s, the Mayor of Oakland,...
