ILA President Harold Daggett Preparing For Wage Scale Meetings With ILA Members in September – And A Potential Coastwide Strike in October

NORTH BERGEN, NJ (August 10, 2024) Harold J. Daggett, International President of the 85,000-member International Longshoremen’s Association, continues to work round the clock, eager to engage in serious negotiations with United States Maritime Alliance (USMX), while also preparing his membership f...
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ILA Bringing Its Wage Scale Delegates Together In New Jersey In Early September For Wage Scale Committee Meetings and To Make Preparations For Possible Strike on October 1, 2024, If No Agreement With United States Maritime Alliance Can Be Reached

NORTH BERGEN, NJ (August 3, 2024) The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) earlier this week alerted all its locals covered by the Master Contract with United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) that Wage Scale Committee Meetings will be held, beginning on Wednesday, September 4 at the Teane...
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ILA President Harold Daggett Says Time Has Come For Shippers To Respect and Reward ILA Workers With Great Contract Or “We Will Hit The Streets”

Thank you, Dennis for telling the world how special our jobs are; if it wasn’t for the dockworkers around the world these companies would not be rich companies that they are today. We are the dockers from around the world who made these companies what they are today. And now they’re looking to g...
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ILA’s Charles Spencer Receives 2024 Benjamin L. Hooks “Keeper of the Flame” Award From National Association for the Advancement of Colored People At Organization’s Las Vegas Convention

NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (July 16, 2024). Charles Spencer, Executive Vice President Emeritus of the International Longshoremen’s Association’s South Atlantic and Gulf Coast District, and a legendary leader for the ILA at the Port of Jacksonville, Florida for decades, will receive the 2024 Benjamin L...
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ILA Bolstered By Powerful Support from Global and National Labor Organizations. President Daggett Says Support Generates Confidence To Deliver Landmark Agreement

As the International Longshoremen’s Association approaches the expiration of the current six-year Master Contract covering all ports from Maine to Texas with United States Maritime Alliance in two months, its position negotiating a new agreement is strongly bolstered by expressions of solidarity a...
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ILA President Harold Daggett Asks ILA Members To Pray For Former President Donald Trump and Victims at Saturday’s Pennsylvania Rally; Recalls Productive Meeting Last November With Trump

NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (July 15, 2024) International Longshoremen’s Association President Harold J. Daggett expressed relief that the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump was unsuccessful and called on all ILA members to pray for the victims at the Saturday rally in Western Pennsyl...
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ILA President Harold Daggett Says Threat of October 1st Strike At Atlantic and Gulf Coast Ports Growing More Likely As Current Contract With USMX Expires in 80 Days

NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (July 12, 2024) The leader of the International Longshoremen’s Association says the threat of a strike at all Atlantic and Gulf Coast Ports is becoming more likely as time is growing short before the current contract expires in 80 days, on September 30, 2024. Harold J. Daggett...
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