by admin | May 2, 2016 | April 2016 Dispatcher, Featured, Solidarity
Hours after the ILWU Executive Board’s endorsed Bernie Sanders for President on March 24, members were scrambling to help the union-friendly candidate who is who standing up for unions and the working class. During the next 48 hours, ILWU members heard union radio ads...
by admin | Apr 25, 2016 | April 2016 Dispatcher, Political Action
ILWU Local 13 member Vivian Malauulu scored an impressive election victory on April 12, defeating a well-connected incumbent and winning a seat on the Long Beach Community College Board of Trustees. Malauulu won nearly 60% of the tally – soundly defeating her...
by admin | Mar 29, 2016 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs, March 2016 Dispatcher
Americans are beginning to dump our throw-away economy. Curbside recycling is now available in most west coast communities and more than 9,000 cities across America. It’s helping to divert one-third of our waste that used to be burned or buried. Recycling is also good...
by admin | Mar 29, 2016 | Featured, March 2016 Dispatcher
PUUNENE, Maui – At its peak, sugar was the number one industry in Hawaii with hundreds of thousands of acres under cultivation on Kauai, Oahu, Maui and Hawaii island. By 2015, only Maui’s Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company (HC&S) remained of the industry once...
by admin | Mar 29, 2016 | Featured, March 2016 Dispatcher
The ILWU Canada Leadership Course held on February 14-19 at Harrison Hot Springs in British Columbia, was a tremendous success. Our class was bursting at the seams with 26 participants who attended from ILWU Canada Locals 502, 505, 508, 514, 517, Grain Workers Union...
by admin | Mar 10, 2016 | Featured, February 2016 Dispatcher, Solidarity
Three Local 21 members were honored last month by the Port of Longview for rescuing a mariner who fell overboard into the Columbia River on December 31. The incident happened at 11 o’clock in the morning on New Year’s Eve day when it was still bitter cold at Berth 2...
