Registration Now Available On-line for Atlantic Coast District Convention and International Convention Scheduled For July at Diplomat Beach Resort Hotel in Hollywood, Florida

NORTH BERGEN, NJ (May 5, 2023) Registration for the ILA’s two conventions coming up this summer at the Diplomat Beach Resort Hotel in Hollywood, Flo...
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Workers Memorial Day Events Announced At Ports in Miami and New York-New Jersey

NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (April 22, 2023) On Friday, April 28, 2023, the International Longshoremen’s Association will join the world-wide labor movemen...
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ILA Longshore Workers At New Jersey’s Busiest Ports Cheer As US Supreme Court Unanimous Ruling Allows State of New Jersey to Unilaterally Exit from Waterfront Commission

NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (April 20, 2023) ILA Longshore Workers at waterfront facilities throughout New Jersey joined in collective cheers on Tuesday as w...
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A Statement From President Harold Daggett, International Longshoremen’s Association, on Supreme Court Decision Allowing New Jersey To Withdraw From Waterfront Commission

The International Longshoremen’s Association is extremely happy with today’s unanimous Supreme Court decision allowing New Jersey to unilaterally ...
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ILA~USMX Joint Safety Committee – OSH Circular – 2023-04 – Stay Back One Full Container Stack!

The ILA~USMX Joint Safety Committee (JSC) would like to take the time to remind all in-house and outside drivers using yard stack service lanes to sta...
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Eight-Year Organizing Campaign Culminates With Grand Bahama Dock and Allied Workers Union Receiving Charter from International Longshoremen’s Association

NORTH BERGEN, NJ (February 23, 2023) – Organizing persistence spanning nearly a decade, coupled with crafty negotiations at the top Cabinet leve...
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ILA President Harold J. Daggett Joins Inauguration Celebration in Fort Lauderdale As Local 1526, ILA Officers Take Oath of Office and Look To Put Hardships of Pandemic Behind Them

FORT LAUDERDALE – (Tuesday, February 21, 2023) – After enduring three years unforeseen hardships brought on by the worldwide Coronavirus pandemic ...
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IDC-ITF Commissioned Study Reveals Automation Does Not Produce Greater Port Productivity; Costly Set-Ups and Security Threats To Automated Equipment Not Worth Investment, Independent Report Reveals

NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (February 15, 2023) The Centre for Innovation in Transport (CENIT) revealed in a report commissioned by the International Dockers...
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ILA~USMX Joint Safety Committee – OSH Circular – 2023-03 – Entry Into Shipboard Enclosed Spaces

OSHA’s current standards addressing this subject look like this: 29 CFR 1918.93(a) Purpose and scope. This section covers areas in which the emp...
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ILA~USMX Joint Safety Committee – OSH Circular – 2023-02 – Vessels’ Cargo Gear

Follow all OSHA regulations that apply to lifting gear supplied by vessels. In example: 1918.51(a) The safe working load specified in the cargo gear c...
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Tyre Nichols Death Represents Painful Fact Our Nation Is Failing To Meet Civil Rights Challenges; ILA Civil Rights Chair Herbie Hall Promises Longshore Union Will Lead Fight for Equality and Justice

NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (February 1, 2023) The leader of the Civil, Human and Women’s Rights Committee of the International Longshoremen’s Associatio...
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SAGCD President Alan A. Robb’s 2023 Message Remembering Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dear Friends: We celebrate and memorialize Martin Luther King Jr. who would be 94 in 2023. We pause as we recall his tragic assassination in 1968. We ...
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