ILA News

SEA ISLAND, GA (Feb. 3, 3020) – At the 2020 Georgia Foreign Trade Conference here in Sea Island, Georgia, International Vice President Willie Seymore, from the Port of Savannah, will recognize five ILA members from Local 1423 at the Port of Brunswick, who last November dove into the water after 44-year-old ILA member Lon Bland […]

NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (December 29, 2019) Harold J. Daggett enjoyed a banner year in 2019. He was unanimously re-elected to a third four-year-term as International President of the 65,000-member union and received two top maritime honors in 2019 – the Man of the Year Award from the prestigious Foreign Freight Forwarders and Brokers Association

December 19, 2019 – Remember the joy we felt those Christmas mornings when we woke up and found a shiny new bicycle next to the Christmas tree? ILA Locals 970, 1248, 1624 and 1970, together with the Hampton Roads District Council and contributions from the Hampton Roads Shipping Association are making that Christmas magic a

NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (December 6, 2019) John Cuozzo, President of ILA Local 1478-2 in Newark, New Jersey, is calling on all his fellow Sister and Brother ILA members from the Garden State to contact all State legislators to defeat New Jersey Senate Bill 2776. The bill would ban all plastic and paper bags at

NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (November 27, 2019) On behalf of the officers of the International Longshoremen’s Association, I want to wish our members and their families a most Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving Day. The Daggett family has so much to be grateful for this year. My son John Daggett went through major heart surgery last