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Workers, Labor Leaders and Community Members to Honor Florida Workers Who Lost Their Lives on the Job Florida’s Working Families are Speaking Up and Calling for Critical Workplace Protections Miami, Florida – On Thursday, April 28, local workers, union leaders and community allies will gather at Port Miami at a Memorial Service to mark Workers …
NORTH BERGEN, NJ (March 26, 2022). Harold J. Daggett, the President of the International Longshoremen’s Association told his counterpart, Willie Adams, the President of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) that he and his members can rely on the “full support of the ILA” as they enter into negotiations this Spring with Pacific Maritime …
NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (March 21, 2022) The New York Times this morning reports that “Russian forces broadened their bombardment of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol on Sunday,” a major port city in Ukraine. The worldwide family of dockers, who have continued to send messages of solidarity to their Sister and Brother Ukrainian Dockers. “The …
NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (March 11, 2022) The ILA tonight applauded the Biden Administration for the Executive Order the President signed today boycotting Russian exports and imports that are handled at ILA ports. While President Biden’s Executive Order announced prohibiting Certain Imports, Exports, and New Investments with respect to continued Russian Federation Aggression, the order …
NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (March 2, 2022) Hundreds of ILA women longshore workers and officers will gather in Jacksonville, Florida this week as the Southeastern Dock & Marine Council, ILA hosts the inaugural ILA Women’s Conference, “to salute ILA women workers who have helped build the maritime industry across the country,” according to the organizers …
NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (February 25, 2022) The International Longshoremen’s Association stands in unity with the brave citizens of Ukraine and condemns Russia for its unprovoked attack and invasion of Ukraine. Russia’s aggressive and shameful actions are a violation of international law and have brought unnecessary violence, destruction, and hardship, and death to innocent Ukraine …
[envira-gallery id=”5993″] Yesterday, ILA leadership, consisting of Dennis Daggett, ILA International Executive Vice President; Kenny Oelkers, ILA National Port of Discovery Director and ILA Education Director; and Alan Robb, South Atlantic and Gulf Coast District President, toured Port Houston and saw the Neopanamax electric cranes at the Bayport Container Terminal, which were delivered last week. …
[envira-gallery id=”5979″] The three new $35 million ship-to-shore cranes are expected to be operational in the summer of 2022 and will be the tallest to date for Port Houston, standing at 158 feet (48 meters) under the spreader and will be capable of handling 18,000 TEU-sized container ships. The three cranes will bring Port Houston’s …
Another positive day for the ILA and Cooper/Ports America (C/PA) at the Houston City Docks/Turning Basin. The ILA provided 20 labor gangs to C/PA and their partner, Schroder Marine Services (SMS), in moving international cargo from vessels to facilities. Yesterday, February 1, 2022 we had 12 vessels working at the Houston City Docks for C/PA. …
Dear Sisters and Brothers: The Southeastern Dock & Marine Council – ILA is presenting an ILA Women’s Conference in Jacksonville FL March 3-5, 2022 in the South bank Jacksonville Riverwalk Marriott Hotel 1515 Prudential Drive Jacksonville, FL 32207 Twelve reimbursement scholarships of up to $1200 will be awarded from the ILA Civil Rights Committee. All …
As the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. prepared to launch the Poor People’s Campaign in 1968, he traveled to Memphis several times to support striking black sanitation workers. On February 1, two Memphis sanitation workers were crushed to death when the trash compression mechanism in their truck malfunctioned illustrating the dangerous working conditions facing sanitation …
Dear Friends: Martin Luther King Jr. would be 93 this year. When Reverend King was brutally assassinated 54 years ago, our country was attempting to reckon with the horrible legacy of slavery and the Civil War aftermath of “Jim Crow”. There was a period following his death of a united goal favoring civil rights, voting …
