LIHUE—The 46th annual ILWU Mixed Bowling Tournament was held on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 29-30, 2002 at the Lihue Bowling Center on Kauai.
Twenty teams from ILWU Divi- sions on the Big Island, Maui, Kauai and Oahu participated in this year’s tournament for a total of 105 bowlers. The tournament sponsored singles, doubles, and team events, and also awarded prizes to bowlers
with the top total scores in the “All-Events” category.
HONOLULU—For the last seven years, the Big Island team from the Mauna Lani Bay Resort has dominated the ILWU statewide basketball tournament and walked away with the state championship. One
reason for this dominance may be the fact that the team is able to recruit the best players from over 3,500 members who work at 6 major ILWU hotels on the West side of Hawaii.
The ILWU Local 142 has a long history in the movement for safe, decent, and affordable housing. The Union has not been a financier or developer, but we have been an advocate for our members, other working families, and the elderly.
The ILWU reached a landmark agreement with the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) on Saturday, November 23, 2002, that will benefit workers, the shipping industry, consumers and our economy. ILWU leaders say the contract is a winwin for West Coast ports, workers and nation’s consumers.
Labor’s response to globalization was on the minds of a couple hundred ILWU members and supporters as they rallied at the longshore Local 10 hall Oct. 10.
Local 34 retiree Asher Harer.
With this year’s contract fight, ILWU members join the legions of dockworkers around the world who have been fighting privatization and casualization for more than a decade. Shipping and stevedoring companies have led the anti-worker drive, but governments everywhere have backed them up.
Edited by Harvey Schwartz, Curator, ILWU Oral History Collection
This article features the recollections of Louis Goldblatt, who was the union’s International secretary-treasurer for 34 years and an ILWU leader who made significant contributions to labor history. Goldblatt’s testimony focuses on the ILWU’s early days in the Islands, his own leadership role and his relationship with long-time Hawaii Regional Director Jack Hall.
Kapalua Bay Hotel members will get a huge paycheck just in time for the holiday season. Most full-time employees will get back pay of an additional $200 to over $800 (before taxes and deductions), depending on their job classification. The extra money is the result of a new union contract which includes three wage increases that go back as far as July 2001.
ILWU members in the 2nd Congressional District are urged to vote for John F. Mink, who is running on November 30, 2002, in a special election to serve out the remainder of Patsy Mink’s term of office. The winner of that election will take Patsy’s place in the U.S. House of Representatives until January 2003, when a new term of office begins.
SAN FRANCISCO—ILWU and West Coast longshore employers reached a tentative agreement on technology on November 1, 2002, thus removing a major roadblock in negotiations for a new contract. The union had bottom line concerns about jurisdiction and the employers met those concerns. This is a major victory for the union and the first real progress made in these negotiations. Under an agreement with the federal mediator, details of the technology package will not be released until the entire contract package has been negotiated.