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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 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.
West Coast dockworkers are represented by a different union, the International Longshore & Warehouse Union, or ILWU, which agreed to a new contract with the Pacific Maritime Assn. last year.
Dockworkers are also responsible for securing cargo on ships. Containers are stacked on top of one another, and it's dockworkers' job to make sure the containers are latched together.
All India Port and Dock Workers Federation; All Japan Dockworkers' Union; Amalgamated Society of Foremen Lightermen of River Thames; Amalgamated Society of Watermen, Lightermen and Bargemen; Associated Marine Workers Union of New York
Members of ILA, the union representing the dockworkers, walked off the job on Tuesday for the first time in nearly 50 years to push for "the kind of wages we deserve," ILA President Harold Daggett ...
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 ...
The dockworkers union's past includes some of the most influential strikes in US history. The ILWU has said it does not plan to strike. The dockworkers union's past includes some of the most ...