SEATTLE ILWU
PENSIONERS CLUB
The
Rusty Hook is now online!
The
Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies
The Pensioners Monthly Meeting starts at 10:00am on the first
Monday of
each month at Local 19's Dispatch Hall.
Seattle Pensioner's Club
3440 E. Marginal Way S.
Seattle, Washington 98134
Why
the Pacific Coast Pensioners Association
An article about how the PCPA got started and why we
all should join.
All registered and non-registered
Longshore personnel are encouraged to join the pensioners club.
For more
info please call 206-343-0504. Or send an e-mail to pensioners@ilwu19.com
Important Links for our Old Timers
ILWU
/ PMA Benefit Plans Office
ILWU-PMA
Welfare Plan Coastwise Indemnity Plan California PPO Network
Social
Security Online
Retirement
Living Information Center
Pensioners - (PCPA)
Pension clubs, like the Auxiliaries, have been key to implementing
ILWU programs in the community, and to focusing union power on pensioners’ issues
such as medical care and the constant threats to the Social Security system. Pension clubs
proliferated after 1952 as recently negotiated pension benefits were implemented in
longshore and warehouse contracts.
The Pacific Coast Pensioners Association was founded in 1968.
Although based in the longshore industry, the PCPA quickly appealed to all pension clubs
in all industries and locals to affiliate, and many did. Most pension clubs in Hawaii are
affiliated with the Hawaii State Pensioners Association, formed in 1962.
The strength of the pensioners was demonstrated in the early 1990s,
when the PCPA organized a campaign to raise $1,000,000 to endow a Harry Bridges Chair at
the Center for Labor Studies at the University of Washington. In less than two years 1,000
individuals donated $570,000 to the chair, and 90 pension clubs, ILWU locals, and other
labor groups contributed another $490,000. The chair was formally endowed in 1992. PCPA
members also led the effort to re-name the ILWU headquarters building in San Francisco as
The Harry R. Bridges Memorial Building.
Copyright by the ILWU 1997
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