Seattle ILWU Pensioners Club
Seattle ILWU Pensioners Club
The 55th Annual PCPA
Convention
Vancouver, BC, Canada
September 15 - 18,2024
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The Pacific Coast Pensioner's Association Oral History Project
The project is a collaboration between the Labor Archives of Washington University of Washington Libraries and the ILWU Pacific Coast Pensioners Association. The Pacific Coast Pensioners Association Oral History Committee (PCPA) has been collecting oral history interviews with PCPA members, officers, and convention visitors since 2013. Oral historian Harvey Schwartz, historian Ron Magden, and labor archivist and oral history project manager Conor Casey conducted interviews at the PCPA annual conventions.
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The Pensioners Monthly Meeting starts at 11:00am on the first Monday of each month at Local 19's Dispatch Hall.
The Pensioners office is open from 10:30am till 1:30pm,
Monday's, Wednesdays, and Fridays
and the first Monday of each Month.
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Early 1960's Pensioner's Club Meeting
Seattle Pensioner's Club
3440 E. Marginal Way S.
Seattle, Washington 98134
An article about how the PCPA got started and why we all should join. All registered and retired Longshore personnel are encouraged to For more info please call 206.623.7461 Ext 6. Join the Pensioner's Club All registered Longshore Personnel (retired or active) including spouses are encouraged to join the club. Support the Pensioners! Printable Application Benefit Plan Information ILWU/PMA Drug and Alcohol Program ILWU/PMA Drug & Alcohol Program Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action Working across generations for social justice, economic
security, dignity, and a healthy planet for all of us.
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or stop by the Pensioners office.
The Harry Bridges Center
Shelvy Daffron Memorial
Past Members of Locals 9, 19, 52, 98 & Aux 3
Elias 'Dutch' Schultz 1910 - 2006
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Pacific Coast Pensioners Association (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.
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