by admin | Mar 6, 2020 | Featured, February 2020 Dispatcher, Fighting for Good Jobs
A popular Bay Area bakery with loyal customers, delicious baked goods and dramatic expansion plans now has an overwhelming majority of workers organizing to join the ILWU. Tartine workers kicked-off their union campaign on February 6 when employees at each of the...
by admin | Mar 6, 2020 | Featured, February 2020 Dispatcher, Solidarity
For the first time in over a decade, ILWU Locals marched in a show of strength at the Los Angeles Kingdom Day parade to honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This year’s parade theme was “Equality For All Humanity, Our Next Step.” The three-mile...
by admin | Jan 31, 2020 | Featured, January 2020 Dispatcher
ILWU Local 5 was chartered on August 10, 2000, after a two-year organizing and contract campaign by 400 workers at Powell’s Books in Portland. The organizing effort began in 1998 when the company restructured jobs and significantly reduced raises for workers....
by admin | Jan 31, 2020 | Featured, January 2020 Dispatcher
The need for increased ILWU Political Action It is no secret that working families have much at stake in the 2020 U.S. Federal elections. On November 3rd, our nation will elect a President, 35 Senators, and 435 members of the House Representatives. If there was ever a...
by admin | Jan 30, 2020 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs, January 2020 Dispatcher
Organizing has been essential to the ILWU’s success since the founding of our union. It began with the militancy of west coast longshoremen, then inspired a march inland to organize warehouse and industrial workers. Across the Pacific, in Hawaii, the spark of...
by admin | Jan 2, 2020 | Featured, Political Action
Former Vice President Joe Biden and retired investor Tom Steyer became the 4th and 5th 2020 U.S. Presidential candidates to visit ILWU headquarters in San Francisco where both had separate free-ranging discussion with members of the International Executive Board....
