by admin | Sep 20, 2015 | September 2015
Editors note: The following report submitted by the ILWU’s Panama Canal Division explains how members of the Panama Canal Pilots Union have been testing new equipment and procedures at the expanded canal which is expected to become operational soon. A total of 52...
by admin | Aug 3, 2015 | Featured, June 2015 Dispatcher, Remembering Our History
Thirty-five years ago, the brutal murder of ILWU Local 37 officials Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes sent shock waves through Seattle and the international labor movement. Supporters spent decades gathering evidence of a high-level conspiracy that involved former...
by admin | Aug 3, 2015 | Featured, June 2015 Dispatcher, Solidarity
A diverse delegation of ILWU leaders joined hundreds of community supporters who marched to support workers at the Sakuma Brothers berry farm on July 11. The effort was organized to help a two-year struggle by Sakuma farmworkers against one of Washington State’s...
by admin | Aug 3, 2015 | Featured, June 2015 Dispatcher
Thousands of ILWU members, their families, community supporters and elected officials gathered at parks, cemeteries and union halls up and down the West Coast to mark the 81st anniversary of Bloody Thursday and pay respects to those who sacrificed their lives in 1934...
by admin | Jul 8, 2015 | Featured, May 2015 Dispatcher
Delegates to the ILWU’s 36th convention in Hawaii debated union policy and made plans for the future during five days of meetings that emphasized unity over differences. History & tradition The group of 360 delegates joined together with 35 ILWU Pensioner and...
by admin | Jun 3, 2015 | Featured, February 2015 Dispatcher, Remembering Our History
Don Watson was a quiet and determined ILWU activist who spent his life gently but effectively leading progressive organizing efforts in the union he loved. Watson died peacefully at his home in Oakland, CA on March 25. “He was content in the knowledge that he had a...
