by admin | Jul 14, 2020 | Featured
Local 23’s Young Workers Committee led a delegation of members and casuals who joined a Juneteenth march in Tacoma called, “Stop Killing Us!” The event was organized by Lincoln High School students who belong to the Black Student Union. Marchers gathered at Tacoma’s...
by admin | Jul 14, 2020 | Featured
Hundreds of ILWU members marched with their families, friends and community members in Seattle to commemorate Juneteenth. Work stopped at the Port of Seattle for eight hours as part of a coastwise shutdown to mark Emancipation Day, and as an act of solidarity with...
by admin | Jul 13, 2020 | Featured
“I can’t breathe.” These three words seemingly can’t get out of my head. Quite honestly, they have haunted me ever since I witnessed the recent public police execution of George Floyd on May 25, 2020. That is the day that former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin...
by admin | Jul 13, 2020 | Featured
With the Covid-19 pandemic raging in the United States, the ILWU International Executive Board met June 18th via video conferencing. Instead of presenting their reports on the video call, Executive Board, members submitted their reports two weeks beforehand. Board...
by admin | Jul 13, 2020 | Featured
This is a movement!” said ILWU International President Willie Adams, who was invited to speak from the back of a flatbed truck by Local 10 and 34 leaders as thousands of marchers assembled to commemorate Juneteenth on a sunny morning outside the Port of Oakland’s SSA...
by admin | Jun 24, 2020 | Featured
WASHINGTON, DC – Two U.S. Senators directed harsh words today at foreign-owned grain company officials during the Agriculture Committee’s markup of the Grain Standards Reauthorization Act. Ranking Democrat Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) said, “I have heard troubling...
