SAGCD - ILA
The largest maritime union workers in North America
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
