Global Dockworker Unions To Join ILA This Wednesday, Sept. 20th Staging Rallies Around the World, To Stop Ørsted US From Stripping ILA Work Jurisdiction Handling Off-Shore Wind Components

NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (September 18, 2023) Dockworkers from around the world will be joining the International Longshoremen’s Association this Wednesday, September 20th, hosting rallies at waterfront ports and terminals at countless global locations to draw attention to the orchestrated attack on t...
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Appeals Court Ruling In Favor of ILA in Leatherman (Charleston, South Carolina) Case: A Major Victory for Longshore Union and A Personal Triumph for ILA President Harold Daggett

NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (July 30, 2023) It was a good week for International Longshoremen’s Association President Harold J. Daggett. In the past seven days, he served as Convention Chairman for the ILA’s 56th Quadrennial Convention, was praised by President Joe Biden and New Jersey Governor Phil Mu...
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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 levels of a Foreign Government, finally spelled success for the International Longshoremen’s Association and Ken Reilly, an ILA International Vice Presi...
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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 that knocked out the cruise industry and their main source of employment, ILA Local 1526 President Johnnie Dixon and his fellow newly elected local of...
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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’ Council (IDC) and International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), that port automation “does not bring improvements neither in the producti...
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