2025 Year In Review: International Longshoremen’s Association President Harold J. Daggett Leads Union To Banner Year In 2025 From Ratification of New Six-Year Master Contract Agreement To Organizing Global Dockworkers To Unite and Halt Automation at all Worldwide Ports
NORTH BERGEN, NJ (December 20, 2025) The past year of 2025 was just eight days old when International Longshoremen’s Association President Harold J. Daggett announced tentative agreement on a landmark six-year Master Contract with United States Maritime Alliance (USMX), that was hailed as the greatest Collective Bargaining Agreement ever negotiated by a union. That successful
Dennis Daggett Declares “Our Time Is Now” In Video of His Powerful Address at Global Dockworkers Lisbon, Portugal Summit, Calling on Maritime Workers Around the World To Draw the Line Together To Halt “Job-Killing Technology”
LISBON, PORTUGAL (November 28, 2025) Longshore Union Leader Dennis A. Daggett charged up the hundreds of delegates attending the Profits Over People: Anti-Automation Conference”. This video shows his forceful remarks delivered at the opening session on Wednesday, November 5, 2025, of “People Over Profits: Anti-Automation Conference”, held at the Pavilhão Carolos Lopes Convention Center
Watch ILA President Harold J. Daggett Keynote Address At Anti-Automation Conference In Lisbon, Portugal. President Daggett Calls For Formation of Global Maritime Alliance To Collectively Act Against Massive Job Losses Through Automation
LISBON, PORTUGAL – Watch Harold J. Daggett, the leader of the 85,000-member International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) open the historic “People Over Profits: Anti-Automation Conference” in Lisbon, Portugal on November 5, 2025, and tell nearly a thousand dockworker and maritime union members in attendance that the threat of automation is “a full-blown attack on our very
With Global Maritime Alliance Success Achieved In Lisbon, Portugal, Harold J. Daggett Cements His Legacy As Most Effective and Influential President In ILA History
LISBON, PORTUGAL (November 9, 2025) In the decade and a half as International President of the 85,000-member International Longshoremen’s Association, Harold J. Daggett has achieved remarkable success for both his rank-and-file ILA members working at ports on the Atlantic and Gulf Coast, the Great Lakes, Puerto Rico, Eastern Canada and the Bahamas; and for dockworkers