by admin | Jun 23, 2020 | Featured
Drone footage courtesy of EKF Production
by admin | Jun 20, 2020 | Featured
By Carly Severn, Matthew Green, Beth LaBerge. Vanessa Rancaño Thousands of people filled the streets of Oakland on Friday, June 19 to honor Juneteenth and stand in solidarity with a huge shutdown of the Port of Oakland. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union...
by admin | Jun 16, 2020 | Featured
William “Bill” Carder, who served as the ILWU’s top legal counsel for nearly two decades, passed away on May 21 in Oakland after a long illness at the age of 78. Carder was raised in a Southern California working-class family. His father was a short-order cook who...
by admin | Jun 15, 2020 | Featured
SAN FRANCISCO – ILWU dockworkers at 29 West Coast ports will stop work for eight hours on Friday, June 19, in observance of Juneteenth – the date in 1865 when Black slaves in Texas first learned of their emancipation. “Juneteenth has long been recognized by the...
by admin | Jun 12, 2020 | Featured
On May 15, ILWU members, pensioners, auxiliary and officers from Locals 13, 63 and 94 gathered at the Longshore memorial in San Pedro’s Gibson Park for the 18th annual First Blood Memorial to honor longshore workers who died while working at the Ports of Los Angeles...
