by admin | Apr 17, 2019 | Featured, March 2019 Dispatcher, Solidarity
On March 13, production workers at San Francisco’s Anchor Steam brewery made history by voting to join the ILWU – becoming one of the first craft breweries to go union. The margin was 31-16 but the numbers increased two days later when service workers at the Anchor...
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 | Apr 16, 2019 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs, March 2019 Dispatcher
Being one of the nation’s largest and most efficient ports has long been a source of pride, good jobs, and prosperity for working-class communities surrounding the mega-port complex of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Despite hard work that set cargo-handling records for...
