In October 2021, Willie Adams, president of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), sat across the table from President Joe Biden at the White House. The two met again at the White ...

Darrin Hoop analyzes the ILWU's tentative agreement with the West Coast shipping bosses as the deal is debated by union delegates at a meeting in San Francisco. NEARLY NINE months after the contract ...

The 70 or so dockworkers who have gone to their jobs over the years but never came home were memorialized during the longshore union’s annual tribute ceremony on Wednesday, May 15. The annual San ...

PORTLAND -- Though the Longshore union won its battle for disputed work at the Port of Portland, its leaders caution it will take more to retain the port's biggest container carrier. Hanjin Shipping ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The dispute over which union workers at the Port of Portland should perform the task of plugging and unplugging refrigerated shipping containers has been resolved, but it's ...

SEATTLE — A feud that could wind up bankrupting the powerful West Coast dockworkers union began like a scene from a B-grade gangster film, when two men met over a calamari lunch. According to federal ...

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Crane productivity at the Port of Portland's marine terminal has dropped significantly since May 2012. (Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian, 2013) At the end of Wednesday's Port Commission meeting, several ...

International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 19 President Herald Ugles (center) speaks with US Secretary of Labor Marty J. Walsh during a tour of the Port of Seattle docks, March 22, 2022 ...

If Hanjin Shipping Co. quits making stops at the Port of Portland,equipment such as these cranes, which cost up to $10 million, would be underutilized. (The Oregonian/2012) As a day of determination ...

SEATTLE, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- Longshoremen were back at work Friday after a confrontation at a grain terminal and a wildcat strike shut down multiple Seattle-area ports, officials said. Managers of the ...