• On July 1, 1971, members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) walked out against their employers, represented by the Pacific Maritime...
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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...
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    Longshoreman's Strike of 1934 – ILWU Depression-Era Murals of the Bay Area. Arcadia Publishing. 2014. ISBN 9781467131445. As the strike raged along the...
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    Agreement, provided employment security for ILWU members, it failed in preventing the Longshoremen's Strike of 1971. The M&M Agreement failed to fully adapt...
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  • Jack Hall (trade unionist) (category 1971 deaths)
    director for the ILWU. He then led a drive that organized plantation and dock workers as one interracial union. Before the drive, most strikes were held by...
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  • the sugar strike of 1946, teaching strikers what rights they were entitled to. In 1954 she became a paid union social worker with the ILWU, and worked...
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    unified strikes in the 1930s. The Hilo Longshoremen merged with the ILWU, and Jack Wayne Hall was sent to Hawaii. Among these unified strikes was the...
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    unionism suspect. Harry Bridges of the International Longshore Workers Union (ILWU) called for a speedup of the pace of work - which may not have been inconsistent...
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  • 1986–1991, when he retired. During his ILWU career he spearheaded numerous contract negotiations and strikes. He frequently butted heads with the British...
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  • activist, and philanthropist from Tacoma, Washington. Lelli was president of ILWU, local 23, for four nonconsecutive terms between 1966 and 1985. Phil Lelli...
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