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The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) is a labor union which primarily represents dock workers on the West Coast of the United States, Hawaii, and in British Columbia, Canada; on the East Coast, the dominant union is the International Longshoremen's Association. The union was established in 1937 after the 1934 West Coast ...
The International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) is a North American labor union representing longshore workers along the East Coast of the United States and Canada, the Gulf Coast, the Great Lakes, Puerto Rico, and inland waterways; on the West Coast, the dominant union is the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. The ILA has ...
The West Coast district of the ILA broke off from the International in 1937 to form the International Longshoremen's Union, later renamed the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union after the union's "march inland" to organize warehouse workers, then renamed the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) in recognition of ...
Only workers at 14 East and Gulf Coast ports are on strike; West Coast longshoremen are represented by a different union, which negotiated significant wage increases for its members in 2023. Under ...
The following year, the longshoremen went on strike after employers refused to bargain with their newly founded union. Bridges traveled the West Coast coordinating a strike of all longshoremen and ...
In 1960, as ports on the West Coast introduced machinery to move cargo once moved by hand, the union representing longshoremen negotiated protections for workers, including assurances that the ...
West Coast port dockworkers, spanning 29 ports, are covered by a different union, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.On September 1, 2023, they ratified a six-year contract with the Pacific Maritime Association. [2]
West Coast dockworkers have a separate union from East Coast workers. West Coast longshoremen agreed to a new six-year contract last year that included a 32 percent raise.