by admin | Apr 4, 2020 | March 2020 Dispatcher
ILWU International officers led a delegation to the Maritime Union of Australia’s National Conference during the first week of March. The event attracted over 500 rank and file union delegates, including International President Willie Adams, Vice President (Mainland)...
by admin | Apr 3, 2020 | Featured, March 2020 Dispatcher
As The Dispatcher was going to press in March, the COVID19 virus had become a global pandemic, claiming 27,000 lives worldwide and making the US the most-afflicted nation on earth with 185,000 confirmed cases and a domestic death toll of 3,800 and rising. Washington...
by admin | Apr 1, 2020 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs, March 2020 Dispatcher
Almost 200 Tartine Bakery workers participated in a pair of union elections held in the Bay Area on March 12 and 13, where a majority signaled support for the ILWU. Targeted by union-busters The largest group of workers at three San Francisco bakery locations were...
by admin | Mar 10, 2020 | Featured, February 2020 Dispatcher
As 2019 drew to a close, U.S. Representative John Lewis of Georgia, released a brief statement that he had recently been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer. “I have been in some kind of fight – for freedom, equality, basic human rights – for nearly my entire...
by admin | Mar 6, 2020 | Featured, February 2020 Dispatcher
Former ILWU International President David Arian who also served as Vice President of the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners was remembered one year after his passing with a ceremony that dedicated a street and bench in his honor on February 8th in San Pedro....
by admin | Mar 6, 2020 | Featured, February 2020 Dispatcher, Fighting for Good Jobs
A popular Bay Area bakery with loyal customers, delicious baked goods and dramatic expansion plans now has an overwhelming majority of workers organizing to join the ILWU. Tartine workers kicked-off their union campaign on February 6 when employees at each of the...
