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Convention Nominations and Primary Cont...

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.

Notice of Nomination and Primary Elections at ILWU Convention and Coast Longshore Division Caucus

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.

Settlement of decades-long ICTSI lawsuit allows the ILWU to move forward and focus on our future and this union’s important work

Message from the International President
My last President’s message in the September 2023 Dispatcher was written during a time of uncertainty.

Call to the 39th convention ILWU

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.

Priscilla Shishido Library: The Importance of Union Memory

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.

Bouslog cont.

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.

Bouslog, ILWU’s Fierce Attorney Who Changed Hawaiʻi

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.

Labor News Across Hawaiʻi

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...”

2024 A Big Year For 142 Members

President’s Message continued...
are being met, we will see good outcomes - in our contracts, at our jobs, and even in the political realm. We will see weak outcomes When we do not fulfill our duties and responsibilities as union members.

142 Political Action Focuses on Hawaiʻi’s Working Class

counties explicit authority from the state to make crucial decisions around short-term rentals. In years prior, the counties’ efforts to phase out short-term rentals have been handicapped by federal intervention over definitions of what qualifies as a short term rental.
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