by admin | Aug 31, 2018 | Featured, Remembering Our History, September 2018
On August 10th at an event held at ILWU Local 19 in Seattle, Coast Committeeman Cam Williams on behalf of the Coast Committee and the Longshore Division, presented a $100,000 check to the University of Washington’s Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies to establish a...
by admin | Oct 17, 2017 | Featured, October 2017 Dispatcher, Remembering Our History
and turbulent origins. 1934 longshore strike headquarters The story begins almost ten years ago when the Commonwealth Club – America’s oldest public affairs forum – began searching for a site to build their new headquarters in San Francisco. They discovered a...
by admin | Aug 4, 2017 | In the News, Remembering Our History
Longtime Portland labor and social justice advocate Lois Stranahan, passed on May 17 at the age of 97. She was born and raised on a farm in Arkansas where she played the fiddle in a family band with her five siblings.” Like many of her generation, she migrated from...
by admin | Aug 3, 2015 | Featured, June 2015 Dispatcher, Remembering Our History
Thirty-five years ago, the brutal murder of ILWU Local 37 officials Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes sent shock waves through Seattle and the international labor movement. Supporters spent decades gathering evidence of a high-level conspiracy that involved former...
by admin | Jun 3, 2015 | Featured, February 2015 Dispatcher, Remembering Our History
Don Watson was a quiet and determined ILWU activist who spent his life gently but effectively leading progressive organizing efforts in the union he loved. Watson died peacefully at his home in Oakland, CA on March 25. “He was content in the knowledge that he had a...
by admin | May 15, 2015 | February 2015 Dispatcher, Remembering Our History
Hundreds of union members, elected officials and supporters gathered at San Francisco’s Pier 27 on March 26 to celebrate the unveiling of an interactive, multimedia sculpture honoring the legacy of former ILWU International President Jimmy Herman. Speakers at the...
