by admin | Mar 5, 2013 | February 2013 Dispatcher
Note: On Martin Luther King’s birthday, a community celebration has been held each year at the Local 6 hall in Oakland. This year, the event sponsors invited a recycling worker of address the large audience on January 21. The remarks below were written by recycling...
by admin | Mar 4, 2013 | February 2013 Dispatcher, Helping Our Community
ILWU Coast Committeeman, Ray Ortiz, Jr. joined former San Francisco Mayor and political heavy-hitter, Willie Brown, Jr., to support the Booker T. Washington Community Service Center on January 30th in San Francisco. Mayor Brown was honored at a fundraising event for...
by admin | Mar 4, 2013 | Featured, February 2013 Dispatcher
Recycling is supposed to be good and green, but there’s plenty that’s disturbing and dangerous about this fast-growing niche in the nation’s highly-profitable $55 billion-dollar waste industry. Most recycling workers suffer from poverty wages, meager benefits,...
by admin | Jan 4, 2013 | December 2012, Featured, Helping Our Community
Keith Madding, a member of the Inlandboatmen’s Union (IBU), the ILWU’s Marine Division, rescued a man who was struggling to stay afloat in the waters outside of San Francisco Bay. Madding was working on a tugboat named “Guard” during the early morning of October 31....
by admin | Jan 4, 2013 | December 2012
Former Local 13 Vice-President Kevin Robert Schroeder passed away on November 27, 2012, at the age of 58 in San Pedro where he had been a lifelong resident and union leader. Schroeder worked for years as a commercial fisherman, but spent the majority of his working...
by admin | Jan 2, 2013 | December 2012, Fighting for Good Jobs
Twenty-five Security Officers employed by the Port of Portland reached tentative agreement for a new four-year contract on November 24, thanks to good planning and solidarity support from other ILWU members. The new agreement that expires in June, 2015, was ratified...
