by admin | Aug 20, 2014 | Aug/Sept 2013 Dispatcher, Events, Pensioners
The 47th Annual Convention of the Pacific Coast Pensioners Association will convene at 9:00 AM on Monday, September 15, and adjourn at about Noon on September 17, 2014. Place: Holiday Inn – Vancouver Centre 711 West Broadway Vancouver, British Columbia Contact your...
by admin | Aug 12, 2014 | Aug/Sept 2013 Dispatcher
A tentative agreement for a new contract covering grain terminals in the Pacific Northwest was reached on August 11, by a negotiating committee representing five ILWU local unions: Local 4 in Vancouver, Local 8 in Portland, Local 19 in Seattle, and Local 21 in...
by admin | Aug 14, 2013 | Aug/Sept 2013 Dispatcher, Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs
ILWU members and leaders attended a rousing convention in late July to support ILWU Local 56 members, known as the “shipscalers” who have a proud history and are preparing for a tough contract fight this November. History of the “scalers” Today, the “scalers” are...
by admin | Aug 14, 2013 | Aug/Sept 2013 Dispatcher
Most longshore workers know that our six-year contract with the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) expires next summer. As we prepare for negotiations next spring, the employers have been watching- and testing us. The first test came in 2010, when we took-on Rio...
by admin | Aug 14, 2013 | Aug/Sept 2013 Dispatcher, Featured, Remembering Our History
ILWU members and pensioners came together on July 5 along the West Coast to remember Bloody Thursday and honor the memory and sacrifice made by the martyrs of the 1934 West Coast Strike—the struggle that gave birth the ILWU and radically improved the wages and...
