Part 2 from the IBU convention, we had a long talk with Andrew Hedden form the Harry Bridges Center for labour studies at the University of Washington, and Conor Casey the Labour Archivist and Director of the the Labour Archives of Washington. We find out how a labour leader from San Fran ends up having a building named after him, and a statue of him, on a campus full of corporate money in Washington state.

IBU Convention Part 1, this is a mash up of all the short conversations we had over our two days in Seattle. We learned a lot about the structure, scope, and history of the IBU as well as some of the struggles the IBU shares with other maritime unions around the world.1-Adam Petty, IBU Executive and Zac villanueva from the IBU in southern California2-Mike Vera IBU Southern california, captain with Foss Maritime3-Berit Eriksson, workforce development director for the sailors union of the pacific4-Terry Engler ILWU Local 4005-Monte Beard JR, captain for Catalina Express, and Adam Dalton, IBU organizer 6-Richard Gurtiza IBU region 37 cannery workers7-Meagan Nye IBU Alaska, Ryan Brazeau IBU Puget Sound8-Peter Hart, Rolland Lee, Terri Mast IBU Secretary Tresurer, Kerry Crocker

Brother Aaron Ekman, BCFED Secretary Treasurer joins us for a election wrap up episode. We chew through some international labour news, and Aaron ends things with a great song choice.

The Mikes were both gone, so Dan called in two returning guests to fill some seats. Dan, Sunny, and Rob sat down with Vancouver-Kingsway NDP MP Don Davies and talked about a bunch of stuff including his campaign, Bill C51, TPP, and the NDP plan for real change.

Day 3 started with some 502 youth delegates, John Collins Jr, Chad Goodrich and Aaron Higo. Then we were honoured to have BCFED President Irene Lanzinger. From Local 13 in LongBeach we had Armondo Porras and Jose Lomeli. The MUA sent two delegates for us to speak with, Codey Buekers and Rachael Carter. We finished it all off with ILWU Canada 2nd VP Steve Nasby.

Day 2 for us started with a conversation with Rene-John Nicolas from Victory Square law office, about appropriate use of social media and some of its benefits and pitfalls. We then spoke with Brian Campbell from the BCFED occupational health and safety centre. Next up was Brother Dean McGrath, President of ILWU Local 23 in Tacoma. We finished the day with Allison Tremblay, also from Victory Square, and spoke about issues around port security.

ILWU pensioners Tom Dufesne, Mike Morino, and Barry Campbell join us right after their presentation on the history of the ILWU in Canada. We were then joined by actor Ian Ruskin, who performed a one man play on the life of Harry Bridges.

Peter Lahay joins us to have a quick chat about the Liverpool dockers dispute 20 years ago.

Friend of the show Mich-Elle Myers of the MUA calls in and gives us a update live from the Hutchison picket line.

ILWU 502 President Tim Farrell and Brother Adam Noullett join us to discuss what we all took away from the last ILWU convention last June in Hawaii. We also talk about the grain workers affiliating with the ILWU Canada, Qatar Airways and couple other current events.