COVID-19 Updates

ILA Suffers Deaths of Two ILA Members From Port Of New Orleans Who Succumb To COVID-19; Entire ILA Devastated At Loss of Fellow Members From ILA Local 3000, New Orleans

NORTH BERGEN, NJ. (April 1, 2020). The horrible COVID-19 Pandemic has claimed the lives of two ILA members from the Port of New Orleans, Louisiana. Brothers Wendell Lacour and Robert Givens. passed away yesterday from the Coronavirus. Both Brother Lacour and Givens were members of ILA Local 3000, in the Port of New Orleans and […]

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ILA Members and Locals Adjusting To New World of Living and Working With COVID-19; Balancing Work and Safety As Nation Looks To Brave Dockworkers To Keep Supply Chains Open

NORTH BERGEN, NJ (March 26, 2020) – The world has changed mightily for Johnny Dixon in six short weeks. Back on Sunday, February 9, 2020, he was installed as President of ILA Local 1526, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida where ILA leader from around the country joined him in the celebration at Port Everglades. ILA Executive

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ILA Holding Daily Telephonic Meetings With Management, State Governments and Port Stakeholders To Fight For ILA Members’ Safety Amid COV-19 Crisis

NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (March 25, 2020). ILA President Harold J. Daggett knows that tens of thousands of ILA members are showing up for work each day at waterfront facilities from Maine To Texas, plus the Great Lakes region, Canada and Puerto Rico, helping to keep our ports open to supply our nations, while all

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ILA Leader Asks U.S. Senators Robert Menendez and Chuck Schumer To Get Coronavirus Exposed or Contracted Longshore Workers Covered Under Federal Compensation

NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (March 24, 2020) Harold J. Daggett, President, International Longshoremen’s Association, today asked New Jersey U.S. Senator Robert Menendez and New York U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer to protect ILA members who have been exposed to, have contracted Coronavirus or are caring for a sick family member, to be eligible to receive Federal

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