The International Longshore and Warehouse Union is a labor union which primarily represents dock workers on the West Coast of the United States, Hawaii, and in British Columbia, Canada; on the East Co
Harry Bridges led the ILWU from 1934 to 1977
ILWU headquarters in San Francisco
Longshore worker and crane operator Al Webster joined the Seattle march on May 1, 2007 to call for an end to the Iraq war.
Harry Bridges
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Harry Bridges was an Australian-born American union leader, first with the International Longshoremen's Association. In 1937, he led several Pacific Coast chapters of the ILA to form a new union, the
International Longshore and Warehouse Union
…of the World had attempted to organize longshoremen, sailors and fishermen in the 1920s. A number of former IWW members and other militants, such as Harry Bridges, an Australian-born sailor who became a longshoreman after coming to the United States, soon joined the International Longshoremen's Association, when…
Central figure representing Bridges, from Anton Refregier's 1948 murals at the Rincon Center (formerly the Rincon Annex Post Office)
Bridges during the strike, July 9, 1934
Bridges shaking hands with fellow "Red" labor leader Charles S. Zimmerman c. 1930s