Some of the expelled unions, such as the ILWU and UE, survived outside the AFL-CIO, maintaining their political principles, in particular solidarity with labor's struggles across the globe and greater rank-and-file control of the union, but have no political relationship with the CP and only marginal influence within the labor movement as a whole.

They chose the International Longshore and Warehouse Union ( ILWU ) because they could charter their own self-governing local union which would include about 350 employees serving in a variety of jobs in all stores and in the Internet, corporate, and shipping departments.

After the 1948 election, the CIO took the fight one step further, expelling the ILWU, Mine, Mill, the Farm Equipment Union ( FE ), the Food and Tobacco Workers, and the Fur and Leather Workers after a series of internal trials in the first few months of 1950, while creating a new union, the International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers ( IUE ), to replace the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers ( UE ), which left the CIO.

Harry Bridges of the ILWU called for a speedup of the pace of work – which may not have been inconsistent with the union's goal of controlling the way that work was done on the docks, but which sounded particularly strange coming from the union that had relentlessly fought employers on this issue.

After the 1948 election, the CIO took the fight one step further in 1950, expelling the ILWU, the Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers Union, the Farm Equipment Union, the Food and Tobacco Workers, and the Fur and Leather Workers, while creating a new union, the International Union of Electrical Workers, to replace the UE, which left the CIO rather than purge its leadership.

Harry Bridges ( July 28, 1901 – March 30, 1990 ) was an Australian-born American union leader, in the International Longshore and Warehouse Union ( ILWU ), which he helped form and led for over 40 years.

Bridges also called for a speedup of the pace of work — which may not have been inconsistent with the ILWU's goal of controlling the way that work was done on the docks, but which sounded particularly strange coming from the leader of a union that had relentlessly fought employers on this issue and which was rejected by many ILWU members.

Those foreign policy issues became labor issues for the ILWU in 1948, when the employers claimed that the union was preparing to strike in order to cripple the Marshall Plan.

The ILWU later faced similar challenges from women, who found it even harder to enter the industry and the union.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union ( ILWU ) is a labor union which primarily represents dock workers on the West Coast of the United States, Hawaii and Alaska, and in British Columbia, Canada.

The ILWU later faced similar challenges from women, who found it even harder to enter the industry and the union.

Although the ILWU is affiliated with the AFL-CIO and the Canadian Labour Congress, neither national trade union officially endorsed the rally.

In September 1999, ILWU Local 5 met for the first time with Powell's management, to begin the contract bargaining process.

He is credited with building a coalition for the Democratic Party that included the Communist Party, 442nd Infantry Regiment, ILWU, other organized labor groups and Japanese-Americans to strengthen the party.

The Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies at the University of Washington ( UW ) in Seattle, Washington, was established in Bridges ' honor in 1992 by ILWU past and current ILWU members.

The CIO, on the other hand, did not consider itself bound by the decisions of the courts or administrative agencies on this issue ; after Bridges came out, along with other CP-allied labor leaders, against the Marshall Plan and for Henry A. Wallace's presidential campaign, the CIO expelled the ILWU in 1950 for being dominated by communists.

James Spinosa defeated McWilliams in the election for ILWU President in 2000.

On April 22, 1999, the ILWU won a representation election for more than 300 workers at the gigantic Powell's bookstore chain headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

The ILWU and the PMA reached a tentative agreement for a new 6-year Longshore Contract in July 2008.

ILWU President Robert McEllrath told the New York Times, " Longshore workers are standing down on the job and standing up for America.

The ILWU has frequently stopped work for political protests against, among other things, Italy's invasion of Ethiopia, fascist intervention in Spain's civil war, South Africa's system of apartheid and the Iraq War.

Murnane was a leader of Portland ILWU Local 8 and a gadfly for historic preservation.

The ILWU also established strong unions on the docks in Hawai ' i during this time and later — despite the concerted opposition of the employers, the military and most of the political establishment — among sugar and pineapple workers there.

In addition, after the west coast longshoremen organized in the strike led by Harry Bridges in 1934 split from the International Longshoremen's Association in 1937 to form the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, the ILWU joined the CIO.

In 1950, after an internal trial, the CIO expelled the ILWU due to its communist leadership.

In the following weeks, the ILWU membership voted to approve the new contract.

The ILWU was accused of engaging in a slowdown of work on docks in 2002, as an alternative to a strike, to support its contract demands in negotiations with the Pacific Maritime Association.

The ILWU also established strong unions on the docks in Hawaii during this time.

A month later, by a vote of 161-155, ILWU Local 5 became official.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union ( ILWU ) responded to word of unsafe practices by offering to bring in experienced men to train the battalion but Navy leadership declined the offer, fearing higher costs, slower pace, and possible sabotage from civilian longshoremen.

This incident is known as Bloody Thursday and is commemorated every year by ILWU members.

The ILWU continues to recognize " Bloody Thursday " by shutting down all West Coast ports every July 5.

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Notable members of the Industrial Workers of the World have included Lucy Parsons ; Helen Keller ; Joe Hill ; Ralph Chaplin ; Ricardo Flores Magon ; James P. Cannon ; James Connolly ; Jim Larkin ; Paul Mattick ; Big Bill Haywood ; Eugene Debs ; David Dellinger ; Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ; Sam Dolgoff, Monty Miller ; Indian Nationalist Lala Hardayal ; Frank Little ; ACLU founder Roger Nash Baldwin ; Harry Bridges, briefly, later helped form ILWU ; Minnesota Governor Floyd B. Olson ; Buddhist beat poet Gary Snyder ; Fredy Perlman ; Australian poets Harry Hooton and Lesbia Harford ; graphic artist Carlos Cortez ; artist Kevin McCoy ; counterculture icon Kenneth Rexroth ; Surrealist Franklin Rosemont ; Rosie Kane and Carolyn Leckie, former Members of the Scottish Parliament ; labor and environmental organizer Judi Bari ; folk musicians Utah Phillips, Harry McClintock, Anne Feeney, and David Rovics ; crime writer Jim Thompson ; Finnish folk music legend Hiski Salomaa ; Catholic Workers Dorothy Day and Ammon Hennacy.

* 2011-It was reported on September 9, 2011 that members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union ( ILWU ) frightened security guards, dumped grain, and vandalized property belonging to EGT, LLC, over a labor dispute.

The Inlandboatmen's Union, whose members operate tugs, barges, passenger ferries and other vessels on the West Coast, and who had formerly been part of the Seafarers International Union of North America, merged with the ILWU in 1980.

The ILWU represents 42, 000 members in over 60 local unions in the states of California, Washington, Oregon, Alaska and Hawaii.

Another 14, 000 members belong to the autonomous ILWU Canada.

On May 1, 2008, more than 10, 000 ILWU members in all 29 West Coast ports voluntarily gave up a day's pay to protest the Iraq war and demand a safe return of American troops.

The most affected unions were the ILWU, UE, TWU, United Public Workers, and Fur and Leather Workers.

Persons associated with the CP did, in fact, exercise a good deal of influence in a number of CIO unions in the 1940s, both in the leadership of unions such as the ILWU, UE, Transport Workers Union of America and Fur and Leather Workers and in staff positions in a number of other unions.

The ILWU has since reaffiliated with the AFL-CIO.

The ILWU executive board gave him a vote of confidence.

Expulsion had no real effect, however, on either the ILWU or Bridges ' power within it.