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...
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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, continu...
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ILA~USMX Joint Safety Committee – OSH Circular – 2024-08 – About Intermodal Containers

ISO containers must be marked in a manner which conforms to ISO Standard 6346. That Standard requires containers to be marked with a two digit “...
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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 ...
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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 unex...
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Longshoremen Newsletter – July 2024

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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 ric...
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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...
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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 A...
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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 T...
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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 at...
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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...
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