by admin | Jun 24, 2013 | Helping Our Community, June 2013 Dispatcher
Last year’s ILWU “Walk the Coast” event in Southern California raised $95,000 to benefit Alex’s Lemonade Stand(ALSF), a charity which fights childhood cancers. This impressive total made ILWU Walk the Coast a Top 100 Fundraiser for ALSF—out of 6,000 participants—in...
by admin | Mar 12, 2013 | Helping Our Community
British Columbia – Members from Local 502 made a generous donation to the Surrey Food Bank with a food donation of over 980 pounds and and $1600 . Their next fundraiser, for the Vancouver Children’s Hospital, also kicked off in March. The yearly event...
by admin | Mar 4, 2013 | February 2013 Dispatcher, Helping Our Community
ILWU Coast Committeeman, Ray Ortiz, Jr. joined former San Francisco Mayor and political heavy-hitter, Willie Brown, Jr., to support the Booker T. Washington Community Service Center on January 30th in San Francisco. Mayor Brown was honored at a fundraising event for...
by admin | Jan 4, 2013 | December 2012, Featured, Helping Our Community
Keith Madding, a member of the Inlandboatmen’s Union (IBU), the ILWU’s Marine Division, rescued a man who was struggling to stay afloat in the waters outside of San Francisco Bay. Madding was working on a tugboat named “Guard” during the early morning of October 31....
by admin | Nov 7, 2012 | Helping Our Community, Political Action
For the third time in the past 14 years, California voters rejected an attempt—fueled by millions of out-of-state dollars—to shut working people out of the political process when they soundly defeated Proposition 32. California Labor Federation Executive...
by admin | Sep 28, 2012 | Featured, Helping Our Community, September 2012 Dispatcher
The first few moments of the ILWU Walk the Coast event on August 11 caused some apprehension for Local 13 longshoreman Dan Imbagliazzo. More than a year of preparation for the first annual coastwise charity event was about to unfold in the Berth 54/55 waterfront...
