by admin | Mar 22, 2018 | Fighting for Good Jobs, March 2018 Disapatcher, Uncategorized
Union officials in Panama and the United States joined together in early March to criticize plans by the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) that call for outsourcing tugboat operations. The ILWU International Union and its affiliate, the Panama Canal Pilots Union, joined...
by admin | Dec 19, 2017 | December 2017 Dispatcher, Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs
More than 300 ILWU members from ports up and down the West Coast led a spirited march through a chilly Northwest rain on November 8 to make their voices loud and clear at the gate of Kalama Export Company (KEX). They shouted their demand in unison: What do we want?...
by admin | Nov 17, 2017 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs, November 2017 Dispatcher
On October 5th, newly organized ILWU members were sworn into Local 63 as part of an on-going campaign to organize the superintendents in the ports of Los Angeles/Long Beach. Superintendents from Pasha, Eagle Marine Services (Operations Center), California United...
by admin | Oct 17, 2017 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs, October 2017 Dispatcher
The Inlandboatmen’s Union, the marine division of the ILWU, held a groundbreaking ceremony for the training hall of their newly established apprenticeship program. The IBU apprenticeship is a two-year program that will provide mariners with the skills and knowledge to...
by admin | Aug 4, 2017 | Featured, Fighting for Good Jobs, Uncategorized
2016 was a busy year of ILWU organizing activity on the docks of Hawaii. A new Matson clerical unit was organized into Local 142, and a charter was granted to ILWU Local 100 to create a home for four newly-organized units of longshore supervisors who came into the...
by admin | Feb 8, 2017 | Featured, February 2017 Dispatcher, Fighting for Good Jobs
Crews at Foss Tug in Long Beach escalated their fight to renew a fair contract during January. Dozens of workers represented by the Inlandboatmen’s Union, the ILWU’s Marine Division, attended a rally on January 6 in front of the Foss Long Beach headquarters on...
