by admin | Mar 6, 2019 | Featured, February 2019 Dispatcher, Remembering Our History
Fred Pecker, who led Local 6 members through difficult times by helping workers organize, win strikes and fight for immigrant rights, passed on December 20, 2018, following a battle with pancreatic cancer. Challenging times Pecker joined the ILWU in 1985 after getting...
by admin | Mar 4, 2019 | February 2019 Dispatcher
A record number of rank and- file women attended last year’s “Women Build Nations” conference in Seattle on October 12-14. The annual event aims to support women who are already working or training to become members of 14 different building trade unions that operate...
by admin | Mar 4, 2019 | Featured, February 2019 Dispatcher, Uncategorized
Sitting in his office, newly elected ILWU Local 34 President Keith Shanklin recalls the first time that he saw the working waterfront. “I remember going to an amusement park in Long Beach called the Pike which had a view of the Port,” Shanklin said. He remembered...
