International Solidarity With ILA Expanding As Global Opposition To Port Automation Grows; Dockworker Unions from Cameroon and Portugal Join Many Others Supporting ILA’s Stance

NORTH BERGEN, NJ (November 15, 2024) Less than 48 hours after the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) broke off talks with United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) when management introduced their intent to implement semi-automation into their proposal that was in direct contradiction to ...
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ILA Working Overtime To Help Victims of Two Recent Destructive Hurricanes In the South; ILA Leaders Load Trucks of Relief Supplies at APM Terminals in New Jersey Bound For North Carolina While ILA’s Red Cross Hurricane Fund Tops $236,000 In Donations

NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (October 16, 2024) Leaders from International Longshoremen’s Association Locals in New York and New Jersey today met at APM Terminals in Port Elizabeth, New Jersey to direct the loading of relief supplies into large containers that will be transported to areas of North Carolin...
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ILA’s Civil, Human & Women’s Rights Committee To Honor Herbie Hall, Sr.; Vincent S. Cameron; Lovette McGill and John Atkins At Annual Dinner November 2, 2024, In Weehawken, New Jersey

NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (October 15, 2024) At its 11th Annual Fall Dinner slated for Saturday, November 2, 2024, at the Envue Hotel in Weehawken, New Jersey, the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) Civil, Human & Women’s Rights Committee will honor International Vice Presidents Herbi...
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Victory Through Solidarity

Brothers and Sisters of the ILA, It is with immense pride that I address you today, following the tentative resolution of the strike we initiated on October 1. Our demands were clear: protections against automation, and wages and benefits that reflect what we truly deserve. Over the past several day...
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