by admin | Jun 12, 2020 | Featured
Our union’s legislative staff in Washington are working with the International Officers to help ILWU families cope with the COVID-19 pandemic that’s causing so much death, job loss and economic hardship for working families. It didn’t have to be this way. Since Trump...
by admin | Jun 12, 2020 | Featured
• George Floyd murder launches national action • COVID-19 death toll in U.S. claims over 100,000 lives • Trump threatens to block voting & deploy military International Officers & Executive Board take action Americans were already reeling in late May from the...
by admin | Jun 10, 2020 | Featured
400,000 dockers stand with Seward, Alaska in condemning Possehl Erzkontor and Alaska Logistics The ITF Dockers, representing 400,000 dock workers worldwide, stand in solidarity with our sisters and brothers in Seward, Alaska, represented by International Longshore and...
by admin | Jun 9, 2020 | Featured
Today thousands of American transport workers from the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) are stopping work and calling for justice for George Floyd and countless others who suffered before...
by admin | Jun 8, 2020 | Featured, Solidarity
ILWU dockworkers on the West Coast will stop work for nine minutes on Tuesday morning, June 9th, at 9 a.m. Pacific Time, to honor George Floyd who was brutally murdered by four Minneapolis Police officers on May 25th. “Our union has a long history of...
by admin | Jun 8, 2020 | Featured
ILWU International Secretary-Treasurer Ed Ferris and International Executive Board member Melvin Mackay were interviewed by local television station KHOU in Houston. Ferris and Mackay, along with Local 19 member Tyrone Harvey, traveled to Houston to attend the...
