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Archives for February 2023

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Eight-Year Organizing Campaign Culminates With Grand Bahama Dock and Allied Workers Union Receiving Charter from International Longshoremen’s Association

NORTH BERGEN, NJ (February 23, 2023) – Organizing persistence spanning nearly a decade, coupled with crafty negotiations at the top Cabinet levels of a Foreign Government, finally spelled success for the International Longshoremen’s Association and Ken Reilly, an ILA International Vice President, as he presented the leadership of the Bahama Dock and Allied Workers Union …

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ILA President Harold J. Daggett Joins Inauguration Celebration in Fort Lauderdale As Local 1526, ILA Officers Take Oath of Office and Look To Put Hardships of Pandemic Behind Them

FORT LAUDERDALE – (Tuesday, February 21, 2023) – After enduring three years unforeseen hardships brought on by the worldwide Coronavirus pandemic that knocked out the cruise industry and their main source of employment, ILA Local 1526 President Johnnie Dixon and his fellow newly elected local officers and trustees, celebrated an inauguration ceremony on Sunday evening, …

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IDC-ITF Commissioned Study Reveals Automation Does Not Produce Greater Port Productivity; Costly Set-Ups and Security Threats To Automated Equipment Not Worth Investment, Independent Report Reveals

NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (February 15, 2023) The Centre for Innovation in Transport (CENIT) revealed in a report commissioned by the International Dockers’ Council (IDC) and International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), that port automation “does not bring improvements neither in the productivity of the concessionary companies nor in the ports that host them.” That finding, …

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ILA~USMX Joint Safety Committee – OSH Circular – 2023-03 – Entry Into Shipboard Enclosed Spaces

OSHA’s current standards addressing this subject look like this: 29 CFR 1918.93(a) Purpose and scope. This section covers areas in which the employer knows, or has reason to believe, that a hazardous atmosphere or substance may exist, except where one or more of the following sections apply: 1918.94(a), Carbon monoxide; § 1918.94(b), Fumigated grains; 1918.94(c), …

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ILA~USMX Joint Safety Committee – OSH Circular – 2023-02 – Vessels’ Cargo Gear

Follow all OSHA regulations that apply to lifting gear supplied by vessels. In example: 1918.51(a) The safe working load specified in the cargo gear certification papers or marked on the booms shall not be exceeded. Any limitations imposed by the certificating authority shall be followed. 1918.51(b) All components of cargo handling gear, including tent gantlines …

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Tyre Nichols Death Represents Painful Fact Our Nation Is Failing To Meet Civil Rights Challenges; ILA Civil Rights Chair Herbie Hall Promises Longshore Union Will Lead Fight for Equality and Justice

NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (February 1, 2023) The leader of the Civil, Human and Women’s Rights Committee of the International Longshoremen’s Association said the death of Tyre Nichols, allegedly at the hands of Memphis , Tennessee police, demonstrates the need for the United States to redouble its effort at guaranteeing basic human rights for all …

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