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Federal Maritime Commission Urges Biden Administration To Help Prioritize Vaccine Availability To ILA and ILWU Longshore Workers To Avoid Port Shutdowns and Cripple Nation’s Supply Chain

NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (January 29, 2021):  Two Commissioners from the Federal Maritime Commission sent a letter to President Joseph Biden urging him to  encourage Port States to prioritize vaccine availability to our nation’s dockworkers belonging to the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU). “While we recognized that prioritization for

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ILA and Employers In Port of New York and New Jersey Revise Quarantine Guidelines

New Rules Provide For Shorter Quarantine Periods For Those Testing Negative During Quarantine; Travel Quarantine Requirements Now Apply To All States Except NY; NJ; Penn; Conn & Del.   NORTH BERGEN, NJ – The International Longshoremen’s Association; New York Shipping Association and Metropolitan Marine Maintenance Contractor’s Association, announced revised quarantine guidelines for ILA longshore workers in

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History of International Longshoremen’s Association Presidents

  The ILA was first created along the Great Lakes Region in 1892 . That same year, The National Longshoreman Association was named and adopted at the Detroit Convention. At first, the Longshore Union was called “National Longshoremen’s Association of  the United States” However, the new union’s organizers were so successful in chartering Canadian locals that

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ILA President Harold J. Daggett Message To Members as Nation Celebrates Dr. Martin Luther King’s Birthday

NORTH BERGEN, NJ –(January 18, 2021) As our nation honors Dr. (Rev.) Martin Luther King’s birthday on Monday, January 18, 2021, we know his dream of equality and justice for all of God’s children on earth is needed now more than ever. Dr. King was truly a man of peace and the violence that befell

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