Please view this important letter from Commissioner Carl W. Bentzel and Commissioner Daniel B. Maffei urging MARAD and CDC to prioritize Maritime workforce. Download full PDF here.
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TTD President Willis Was A Strong Ally of International Longshoremen’s Association and Addressed ACD Convention in 2019 WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Sunday, November 29, with his wife and daughter by his side, TTD president Larry Willis, 53, succumbed to injuries sustained on November 22 in a tragic biking accident. TTD Secretary-Treasurer Greg Regan issues this
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NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (November 9, 2020) In late summer 2011, then U.S. Vice President Joe Biden hosted a small group of labor leaders, including ILA President Harold J.Daggett, at his residence in Washington, DC. There, the now President-Elect Joe Biden told the ILA leader of his long association with the longshore union, at the
NORTH BERGEN, NJ (October 22, 2020) – President Daggett tells ILWU leader: “Your remarkable career in our beloved longshoring industry is a story of a gift, talented and dedicated progressive labor leader who always recognized and appreciated the value and power of solidarity.” Download the letter here.
NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (October 7, 2020) Andrew Lee Laws, Sr. , who started his career as a longshoreman and member of the International Longshoremen’s Association in 1949, when Harry S. Truman was our U.S. President and Joseph Ryan led the ILA, and who would accumulate an amazing 70-plus years on the Texas waterfront, passed
