NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (January, 29, 2016) The leadership of the International Longshoremen’s Association urges all ILA members in the Port of New York and New Jersey to accept orders and return to work immediately. “We have heard your voices, we have heard your concerns, and we have taken action on your behalf,” ILA leaders […]
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International Longshoremen’s Association Pledges Full Support To Get Clean, Drinkable Water To Flint, Michigan; Will Enlist Help From Atlantic Coast District; South Atlantic and Gulf Coast District To Aid Midwest City in Crisis NORTH BERGEN, NJ (Jan. 21, 2016)– Harold J. Daggett, President of the International Longshoremen’s Association, today pledged to get clean, drinkable water
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Attack on Public Sector Unions Is an Attack on Organized Labor North Bergen, NJ – With the Supreme Court about to hear oral arguments next Monday, January 11, 2016, in a case (Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association) which asks them to overrule a 1977 decision and hold that public employees who don’t want to join
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NORTH BERGEN, NJ (Dec. 23, 2015) – Members of the International Longshoremen’s Association received an early Christmas present last week when the Fiscal Year 2016 Omnibus Appropriations Act, passed by Congress, postpones for two years the implementation of the American Care Act’s so called “Cadillac Tax.” ILA members covered under MILA might have seen the
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An accident involving an ILA Local 824 member who was tossed into the turbulent Hudson River while tying up the passenger ship, Norwegian Breakaway, this past Sunday could have turned deadly, but instead had a happy ending thanks to a heroic rescue and lifesaving effort by a fellow ILA member. Mark McQuaid, 37-years-old and a
