HILO - It was a sea of green
as members, friends, and family
gathered at the Harry Kamoku Hall
to celebrate outstanding Units and
Pensioner Clubs.
community by tourists, and
through such regulations,
building up a new work
force of tour guides
from their community to
take permitted tourists
around.
Convention who publicly declares an
intention to run for International office
may request from the International
Union a list of accredited delegates
to the International Convention at any
time within thirty (30) days prior to
the Convention. A list of addresses
of those delegates will also be
available at the International Union
for inspection.
The tri-annual Convention will be held at the Westin Bayshore Hotel,
1601 Bayshore Drive, Vancouver, BC, beginning at 10:00 a.m. on Monday,
June 17, 2024, and closing on or about Friday, June 21, 2024. The elected
Convention delegates will vote to decide the International budget,
proposed increases in per capita rates, as well as policies and direction of the
ILWU for the next three-year period.
Message from the International President
My last President’s message in the September 2023 Dispatcher was
written during a time of uncertainty.
The Thirty-Ninth Convention of the International Longshore
and Warehouse Union will be held on June 17-21, 2024
at the Westin Bayshore Hotel located at 1601 Bayshore
Drive, Vancouver, BC V6G 2V4.
The Priscilla Shishido Library is housed at the Honolulu Hall and holds business
and historical archives for the ILWU Local 142. It is under the management
of Rae Shiraki, who has served as Local 142’s Archivist-Librarian since 2000.
Cecilia “Ceci” Calpito assists her.
Fund to aid the families of ILWU Local 142 members in sending their family
members to the University of Hawaiʻi, including the University of Hawaii
William S. Richardson School of Law.
Over 500 Harriet Bouslog Scholars have attended the University of Hawaiʻi
to date. One may even be related to you or may be the next Harriet Bouslog Labor
Scholar who is seated in the classroom at the William S.
The legal career of Harriet Bouslog is marked by three signature engagements, any one of which would serve as the achievement of a lifetime for a lawyer.
Meat packers, nurses, graduate assistants put up a fight for worker rights. ILWU supports.
Principle IV of the ILWU’s 10
Guiding Principles states, “To help
any worker in distress” must be a daily
guide in the life of every trade union and
its individual members. Labor solidarity
means just that. Unions have to accept
the fact that the solidarity of labor stands
above all else...”