by admin | Jan 3, 2022 | Featured, Helping Our Community
Giving is a tradition: ILWU’s 24th Annual Feed the Community DayJanuary 3, 2022 11:51 am The Southern California ILWU’s 24th Annual Feed the Community Day, sponsored by Locals 13, 63, and 94, So Cal Pensioners, Auxiliary 8, and the ILWU Credit Union, provided 1,500...
by admin | Oct 4, 2021 | Events, Featured, Helping Our Community
SoCal unions celebrate Labor Day with solidarity, mutual aidOctober 4, 2021 10:58 am The Los Angeles Harbor Labor Coalition celebrated Labor Day this year with a food giveaway, dubbed the “Labor of Love,” that fed nearly 1,000 area families. The Labor Day Parade and...
by admin | Dec 23, 2020 | Featured, Helping Our Community
ILWU’s Feed the Community Day lends a helping hand during hard times 23rd Annual Feed the Community Day: The Southern California ILWU family overcame the obstacles posed by the pandemic to feed 1,500 families for Thanksgiving. An increasing number of working-class...
by admin | Apr 16, 2019 | Featured, Helping Our Community, March 2019 Dispatcher
When the critical public ferries operated by Alaska’s Marine Highway System (AMHS) came under attack this year, the Inlandboatmen’s Union (IBU) – the ILWU’s Marine Division – mobilized with community residents to fight back. The crisis came in mid-February when Alaska...
by admin | Feb 8, 2019 | Featured, Helping Our Community, January 2019 Dispatcher
Los Angeles teachers won a carefully-organized six-day strike in January that will deliver smaller class sizes, more nurses and counselors, and greater accountability of private charter schools in the nation’s second largest school system. Early challenges Organizing...
by admin | Aug 16, 2018 | Featured, Helping Our Community, July/August 2018 Dispatcher, Uncategorized
When I arrived for my first meeting of the Tiki Tenants Organizing Committee in Tacoma this past April, a group of 50 people were already gathering in the outdoor courtyard and sitting in a circle of mismatched chairs. I didn’t see anyone I knew, but was quickly...
