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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.
The Pensioners office is open from 8:30am till 12:30pm,
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
Come
on by and say hello!
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 Longshore personnel are encouraged to
join the pensioners club
We
need you!
JOIN THE PENSIONERS CLUB
Printable Application
For more info please call 206.623.7461 Ext 7106. 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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