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ILA Longshore Workers and Dockers From Around The World Angered By Reports That Murderous Putin Is Bombing Ukraine’s Major Port City of Mariupol; Ukraine Vows To Hold Firm

NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (March 21, 2022) The New York Times this morning reports that “Russian forces broadened their bombardment of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol on Sunday,” a major port city in Ukraine. The worldwide family of dockers, who have continued to send messages of solidarity to their Sister and Brother Ukrainian Dockers. “The …

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ILA Successful In White House Request for U.S. Boycott of Russian Shipments; President Joe Biden Issues Sweeping Executive Order Banning Russian Imports and Exports

NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (March 11, 2022) The ILA tonight applauded the Biden Administration for the Executive Order the President signed today boycotting Russian exports and imports that are handled at ILA ports. While President Biden’s Executive Order announced prohibiting Certain Imports, Exports, and New Investments with respect to continued Russian Federation Aggression, the order …

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ILA’s Women on the Waterfront Gather in Jacksonville, Florida This Week For Inaugural ILA Women’s Maritime Conference, Hosted by ILA Southeastern Dock & Marine Council

NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (March 2, 2022) Hundreds of ILA women longshore workers and officers will gather in Jacksonville, Florida this week as the Southeastern Dock & Marine Council, ILA hosts the inaugural ILA Women’s Conference, “to salute ILA women workers who have helped build the maritime industry across the country,” according to the organizers …

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Statement by Harold J. Daggett, President, International Longshoremen’s Association On Russia’s Attack of Ukraine

NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (February 25, 2022) The International Longshoremen’s Association stands in unity with the brave citizens of Ukraine and condemns Russia for its unprovoked attack and invasion of Ukraine. Russia’s aggressive and shameful actions are a violation of international law and have brought unnecessary violence, destruction, and hardship, and death to innocent Ukraine …

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ILA Leadership Visits Port Houston and Local 24

[envira-gallery id=”5993″] Yesterday, ILA leadership, consisting of Dennis Daggett, ILA International Executive Vice President; Kenny Oelkers, ILA National Port of Discovery Director and ILA Education Director; and Alan Robb, South Atlantic and Gulf Coast District President, toured Port Houston and saw the Neopanamax electric cranes at the Bayport Container Terminal, which were delivered last week.  …

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First look at Port Houston’s three new Neopanamax electric cranes for the Bayport Container Terminal

[envira-gallery id=”5979″] The three new $35 million ship-to-shore cranes are expected to be operational in the summer of 2022 and will be the tallest to date for Port Houston, standing at 158 feet (48 meters) under the spreader and will be capable of handling 18,000 TEU-sized container ships. The three cranes will bring Port Houston’s …

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ILA and Cooper/Ports America (CPA) Continue to Keep Cargo Moving at Houston City Docks

Another positive day for the ILA and Cooper/Ports America (C/PA)  at the Houston City Docks/Turning Basin.  The ILA provided 20 labor gangs to C/PA and their partner, Schroder Marine Services (SMS), in moving international cargo from vessels to facilities.  Yesterday, February 1, 2022 we had 12 vessels working at the Houston City Docks for C/PA. …

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Twelve Reimbursement Scholarships to be Awarded from the ILA Civil Rights Committee

Dear Sisters and Brothers: The Southeastern Dock & Marine Council – ILA is presenting an ILA Women’s Conference in Jacksonville FL March 3-5, 2022 in the South bank Jacksonville Riverwalk Marriott Hotel 1515 Prudential Drive Jacksonville, FL 32207 Twelve reimbursement scholarships of up to $1200 will be awarded from the ILA Civil Rights Committee. All …

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ILA Local 1422 President, Charles Brave, Jr., and Newly Elected Officers Rededicate Their Commitment to Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Struggle

As the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. prepared to launch the Poor People’s Campaign in 1968, he traveled to Memphis several times to support striking black sanitation workers. On February 1, two Memphis sanitation workers were crushed to death when the trash compression mechanism in their truck malfunctioned illustrating the dangerous working conditions facing sanitation …

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SAGCD President Alan A. Robb 2022 Message Honoring Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dear Friends: Martin Luther King Jr. would be 93 this year. When Reverend King was brutally assassinated 54 years ago, our country was attempting to reckon with the horrible legacy of slavery and the Civil War aftermath of “Jim Crow”. There was a period following his death of a united goal favoring civil rights, voting …

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ILA President Harold J. Daggett 2022 Message Honoring Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

January 14, 2022 To my ILA membership and their families: Our nation in 2022 is more in need of the vision and the hope expressed by Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. throughout his life in his words and deeds, than any time in its history. As we celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. …

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New Year’s Message 2022

Dear Friends: Here we are on the eve of a new year, already! It seems like we just started 2021, but now we start 2022.  We hoped with the onset of proven safe vaccinations, we would have escaped this thing called “Covid”. Fortunately, for those vaccinated and “boosterized”, the Omicron variant breakthrough cases have been …

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