by admin | Mar 10, 2016 | Featured, February 2016 Dispatcher
The recent San Francisco Ship Clerk’s union election has resulted in a new generation of Local 34 officers, including their first Mexican-American President, David Gonzales – and Vice President Jeanette Walker-Peoples – who is the first woman and first African...
by admin | Mar 10, 2016 | Featured, February 2016 Dispatcher
On January 28-29, a delegation of union officers from the Inlandboatmen’s Union (IBU) and ILWU toured the Job Corps Seamanship Academy at Tongue Point in Astoria, Oregon. ILWU International Secretary-Treasurer Willie Adams, IBU President Alan Coté, IBU...
by admin | Mar 1, 2016 | February 2016 Dispatcher
Longtime Local 34 and ILWU leader Richard Cavalli passed on January 14, 2016 at the age of 75. A native of Oakland, Cavalli was born on June 7, 1940 to his mother, Marion who was a nurse and father, Bud, was a longshoreman. After graduating from Castlemont High School...
by admin | Feb 10, 2016 | February 2016 Dispatcher
When ILWU International Secretary Treasurer Willie Adams was unanimously elected President of the San Francisco Port Commission on January 20 with Vice President Kim Brandon, it marked the first time in the Port’s 152-year history that two African-Americans held both...
by admin | Jan 10, 2016 | February 2016 Dispatcher
The strikingly tall, lanky figure of Ralph Rooker, who was a regular fixture at Local 10’s dispatch hall and Longshore Caucus meetings for more than five decades, passed on December 19, 2015 in San Francisco, the city where he was born in 1940. Rooker came to...
by admin | Dec 3, 2015 | December 2015 Dispatcher, Featured, Uncategorized
A report by Dan McKisson, Local 19 and Rich Austin, Pensioner President McEllrath assigned us to attend the 2015 Single-Payer Strategy Conference in Chicago, IL on October 30 – November 1, 2015. The conference was a collaborative effort involving Labor Campaign...
