Hurricane Katrina hit the coast of southeast Louisiana and southern Mississippi in the early morning of August 29, 2005, as an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm with winds of 135 miles per hour. The storm caused tremendous damage and displaced over one million people from the states of Louisiana and Mississippi.

For the first time ever, the ILWU has a television commercial! The 30-second commercial features who we are and what we do through the faces of ILWU members representing the diversity of our union—by industry, island, age, ethnicity, gender.

On Kauai, ILWU retirees celebrated their Labor Day early as they packed the ILWU Hall in Lihue on August 13 for
their annual picnic. Kauai Division hosts the picnic every year and provided the food, door prizes, and entertainment.