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ILWU President Willie Adams Pledges Solidarity With ILA In Negotiations With USMX; “ILWU and ILA Remain Militant and Resolute In Our Fight Against Automation”

NORTH BERGEN, NJ (August 16, 2024) The leader of the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU), Willie E. Adams, today reaffirmed his union’s support for the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and its negotiations with United States Maritime Alliance (USMX), in a letter sent to ILA leader, Harold J. Daggett. “As you continue negotiating and move …

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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 for a possible strike on October 1, 2024, if USMX fails to reach an agreement …

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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 Teaneck Marriott Hotel at Glenpointe in Teaneck, New Jersey, according to …

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ILA Executive Council Welcomes Eloy A. Cortez As International Vice President

NORTH BERGEN, NJ (July 29, 2024) Eloy Cortez, a 27-year veteran of the ILA, was recently appointed as an International Vice President to fill the unexpired term of legendary ILA leader Clyde Fitzgerald, who stepped down from the International Executive Council. “Our ILA Executive Council voted unanimously to appoint Eloy Cortez as a Vice President …

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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 get rid …

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An Open Letter to the Public: The Real Story Behind Our Fight, Told by an ILA Member and Officer

Dear Friends and Supporters, I am writing to you today as Dennis A. Daggett, a member and Executive Vice President of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA), and a representative of the International Dockworkers Council (IDC). At this critical juncture, we need your understanding and support more than ever. Over the past few years, the shipping …

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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 and support from labor organizations in the United States and globally. The New …

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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 Pennsylvania. “It was sickening to watch a political rally suddenly turn …

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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, ILA President and the …

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SAGCD President Alan A. Robb’s 2024 Juneteenth Message

Dear Friends: June 19, 2024, marks the 159th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s historic announcement in Galveston, Texas that slavery had been abolished two- and one-half years earlier. Sadly, all these years later, we, as a country, still suffer from the awful ramifications of slavery. It seems that rather than progress in recognizing the sins …

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ILA Reveals USMX Member Companies Recorded Billion Dollar Profits In Recent Years; Union Expects ILA Members To Benefit With Generous Master Contract Package

NORTH BERGEN, NJ (June 12, 2024) – The ILA means business in 2024 as it seeks to negotiate a new agreement with USMX before the current Master Contract expires in less than four months, on September 30, 2024. From its leader President Harold J. Daggett to the tens of thousands of ILA rank-and-file longshore member …

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