by admin | Jun 16, 2011 | June 2011 Dispatcher, Pensioners
Before John Eberhardt started jumping out of airplanes, he was working on the docks as a Local 13 member and later as a foreman with Local 94. Co-worker Manuel Cabrera got him to take his first jump on July 7, 2002 in the Mojave Desert town of California City – just...
by admin | Apr 20, 2011 | April 2011 Dispatcher, Featured, Pensioners, Political Action
During the week of March 13, ILWU members from the longshore division, Local 142, Hawaii Longshore Division, Alaska Longshore Division, IBU, and pensioners gathered in Washington, D.C. to fight for issues of importance to ILWU members and all American workers. The...
by admin | Dec 19, 2010 | December 2010 Dispatcher, Pensioners, Political Action
The October issue of the Dispatcher reported that the ILWU Pacific Pensioners Association was sounding the alarm about a potential attack on Social Security by President Obama’s bipartisan Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform which was created to propose ways to...
by admin | Oct 30, 2010 | Featured, October 2010 Dispatcher, Pensioners, Political Action
The fight to save Social Security was a central theme at the annual ILWU pensioners’ convention, held this year in San Francisco. The convention delegates heard from experts and ILWU officials about the planned assault on the program and after the November elections,...
by admin | Oct 16, 2010 | October 2010 Dispatcher, Pensioners, Political Action
The Pacific Coast Pensioners Association (PCPA), representing ILWU retirees and their spouses, held its annual convention this year in San Francisco, from September12-15. Local 10 retiree, and San Francisco Pensioners Club President, George Cobbs, hosted the event....
by admin | Oct 12, 2010 | October 2010 Dispatcher, Pensioners, Remembering Our History
On March 22, 1986 the Tacoma local held their first memorial service for the 1886 founding members as well as for pensioners, widows and actives who passed away in 1986. Dozens of old timers and actives from Tacoma and Seattle attended. Every March 22 since 1986,...
