2020

ILA President Harold Daggett and Union Applaud ILWU President Willie Adams On His Selection As “15 Black Union Leaders Making Their Marks on the Labor Movement”

ILA News

NORTH BERGEN, NJ (October 22, 2020) – President Daggett tells ILWU leader: “Your remarkable career in our beloved longshoring industry is a story of a gift, talented and dedicated progressive labor leader who always recognized and appreciated the value and power of solidarity.” Download the letter here.

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Andrew Lee Laws

Legendary ILA Leader Andrew Lee Laws Passes away at 93, Compiling Historic 70-Plus Year Career With International Longshoremen’s Association

Education, Home, ILA News

NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (October 7, 2020) Andrew Lee Laws, Sr. , who started his career as a longshoreman and member of the International Longshoremen’s Association in 1949, when Harry S. Truman was our U.S. President and Joseph Ryan led the ILA, and who would accumulate an amazing 70-plus years on the Texas waterfront, passed

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