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| Affiliation | Nonpartisan |
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| Name | Robert McEllrath |
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Vancouver, Washington , United States |
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February 00, 1951
(73 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | Thomas Walker
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| Info | Robert McEllrath was elected ILWU International President in 2006. He was elected ILWU International Vice President in 2000 and reelected for another three-year term in 2003.
McEllrath was born in Vancouver, Wash. Feb. 5, 1951 and began working as a casual on the docks of the Port of Vancouver in 1969. He became a registered longshore worker in 1970. Soon after gaining his “A” registration in 1975 he began to serve Vancouver Local 4 as a member of its Executive Board, its Labor Relations Committee and its Memorial Building Association. He also served as the Local’s dispatcher and as a delegate to the Longshore Caucus and the International Convention since the 1980s.
In 1993 McEllrath was appointed to finish the term of the Northwest Coast Committeeman through 1994. McEllrath won election to that position in 1997 before being elected International Vice President for the Mainland in 2000.
McEllrath has extensive contract negotiating experience, having served as the representative for five small ports in the Columbia River area on the Longshore Negotiating Committee for the 1993 and 1996 contracts. He served as co-chair of that negotiating committee for the 1999 contract and also co-chaired that committee during the lengthy and contentious 2002 West Coast longshore negotiations. He has also chaired the Negotiating Committee for the ILWU-PMA Shipboard Grain contract in 1999. He served as chair of the union's Negotiating Committee for the Northwest Grain Handlers contract in 2000 and 2003.
McEllrath is a second-generation longshore worker. He is married to Sally McEllrath. Their oldest son, Peter, 38, is carrying on the family tradition as a third-generation longshore worker. He is a member of ILWU Local 4 and an active union officer. They have a second son, Jason, 36, who works in the real estate industry.
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