by admin | Jun 30, 2016 | Featured, Helping Our Community
An estimated 100 ILWU volunteers provided most of the labor and resources for a successful community clean-up effort in partnership with Oakland District 5 Councilmembers Noel Gallo on Saturday, May 14. The impressive turnout topped results from the previous clean-up...
by admin | Oct 29, 2015 | Featured, Helping Our Community, October 2015 Dispatcher
Local 26 member David Gonzales is leading an impressive but quiet effort with other volunteers in Wilmington who serve hundreds of meals each week to homeless and hungry people in the harbor area. “I know what it’s like to be on the streets because I was there once...
by admin | Oct 21, 2015 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs, Helping Our Community, October 2015 Dispatcher
An overflow crowd at the Oakland City Council meeting on September 15 heard ILWU leaders taking passionate positions against a controversial coal export terminal that developers and coal industry lobbyists want to build on a private dock with public subsidies. Six...
by admin | Nov 25, 2014 | Featured, Helping Our Community, November 2014 Dispatcher
On November 25th Southern California ILWU members and their families distributed 1,500 Thanksgiving baskets to families in need. With each basket filled enough food to feed 10 people, an estimated 15,000 people this year were fed as a result of the ILWU’s Feed the...
by admin | Nov 12, 2014 | Helping Our Community, October 2014
For the fourth straight year, Local 502 members have raised funds for the British Columbia Children’s Hospital. Every year the fundraising effort has beaten previous records. This year the record was beaten by $9,000; Local 502 members raised $41,502 which brings the...
by admin | Oct 3, 2014 | Featured, Helping Our Community, September 2014 Dispatcher
This August “ILWU Walk the Coast” coordinated events in three ports and raised over $70,000 for Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation with fundraisers sponsored by Locals 13, 63 and 94 in Los Angeles, Local 46 in Port Hueneme, and Local 10 in San Francisco. The Coast...
