ILA News

ILA Local 1329’s peaceful protest march and 8 minutes, 46 seconds of silence on one knee. Thank you ILA Local 1329 President Corey Tabor.

Thank you Local 1351 President Charles Lewis and Vice President Bill Williams Jr.and a special thank you to our Union brother, Pastor and visionary John L. White for his heart felt and inspiring words. A great showmanship of #solidarity and #unity. Our thoughts and prayers are with the family members of George Floyd and others.
We are the International

The stand against racism and the War on Black America of my International Union, the International Longshoremen’s Association, makes me so proud! Thanks to Buddy Smith, Dennis Daggett, Harold Daggett, Herbert Hall, G Rodney Owens, and the entire ILA! Yesterday, my International Longshoremen’s Association Local Union, ILA Local-1233 and the entire International Union shut down Port Newark and Elizabethport and

Today, thousands of American transport workers from the International Longshoremen’s Association and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union – ILWU have stopped work and calling for justice for George Floyd and countless others who suffered before him. The ILWU members have stopped work for nine minutes – the same amount of time George Floyd’s neck was knelt on by the

#BlackLivesMatter in New Orleans, Spain and Liverpool. ILA-USMX Peaceful Protests: Elizabeth and Bayonne, New Jersey; Boston; Halifax; St. John; Brunswick; Baltimore.