 It was also a turning point in the waterfront strike, which, although it dragged on until December, lost its optimistic and militant character after the battle.Longshoremen, however, would continue to fight for the right to organize an independent union and to control dispatching, and finally succeeded a decade later when they formed the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), Local 500.It was also the last of WUL militancy that Vancouver would witness.