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ILWU headquarters in San Francisco. The ILWU admitted African Americans in the 1930s, and during World War II its San Francisco section alone had an estimated 800 black members, at a time when most San Francisco unions excluded black workers and resisted implementation of President Roosevelt's Executive Order 8802 (1941) against racial discrimination in the US defense industry. [8]
International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) 1937 424,579 Freight handlers at ports. 2016: ILWU: International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) 1896 392,584 Operators of construction equipment; stationary engineers. 2015: IUOE: United Association (UA) 1889 324,043
Harry Bridges (28 July 1901 – 30 March 1990) was an Australian-born American union leader, first with the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA). In 1937, he led several chapters in forming a new union, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), expanding members to workers in warehouses, and led it for the next 40 years.
The Mechanization and Modernization contracts (M&M), one from 1960 to 1965, and another from 1966 to 1971 respectively, forced lay-offs and took recruitment power away from the local unions at each port and gave it to a committee of top union and PMA officials. Prior to the first agreement, this committee introduced non-union laborers to the ports.
Garcia started longshoring in New Westminster in 1947. In 1963, he was elected President of ILWU Local 502; three years later he was arrested, convicted and sentenced to three months in jail, along with nine other local presidents and then-Canadian Area President Roy Smith, for defying Canada's Supreme Court. [5]
ILWU Local 142 [40] ILWU Local 100 [44] Plasterers & Cement Masons, Local 630 [17] [40] Operating Engineers, Local 3 [44] Plumbers & Fitters UA, Local 675 [17] [40] United Public Workers, AFSCME, Local 646, AFL-CIO [40] University of Hawaii Professional Assembly (UHPA) [17] [40] Hawaii Firefighters Association, Local 1463 [44] Hawaii Laborers ...
“The men and women of the ILWU are thrilled to learn of this over $400 million investment, by the U.S. EPA, in the environmental and economic well-being of our members and local community ...
The ILWU represents 42,000 members in over 60 local unions in the states of California, Washington, Oregon, Alaska and Hawaii. As of December 2005, and together with the Los Angeles Police Command Officers Association, the Los Angeles Port Police Association was one of the few unions to be up-to-date with its financial reports to the State of ...