ILA Wage Scale Delegates Conclude Two-Day Contract Negotiations With Unanimous Support For International President Harold J. Daggett To Call For October 1st Strike

September 5, 2024
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NORTH BERGEN, NJ (September 5, 2024) Nearly 300 International Longshoremen’s Association Wage Scale Delegates ended their two-day Wage Scale Meetings today in New Jersey by unanimously supporting International President Harold J. Daggett’s call for a coastwide strike at ports from Maine to Texas on October 1, 2024, if a new agreement with United States Maritime Alliance is not reached at that time.

On the second day of meetings in Teaneck, New Jersey attended by ILA Wage Scale Delegates from the 13 port areas that are part of the ILA-USMX Agreements, ILA Executive Vice President Dennis A. Daggett laid out the union’s Strike Mobilization Plan that would be enacted if a new agreement is not reached by the September 30th expiration of the current six-year agreement.

“Sisters and Brothers, it will be monumental if we are without a new Master Contract to replace the current one that expires in three weeks and four days from today,” ILA President Daggett told his ILA Wage Scale delegates. “We must be prepared if we have to hit the streets at 12:01 on Tuesday, October 1, 2024.”