(October 25, 2019) International Longshoremen’s Association continuing its organizing drive at Rukert Terminals Baltimore. Rukert handles metals, ores, fertilizers, alloys and other dry bulk and break-bulk cargoes. According to its web site, Rukert “services include stevedoring, warehousing and transfer to and from vessel, rail or truck.” Jim Paylor, International Assistant General Organizer, is leading the […]
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NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (September 27, 2019) Dennis A. Daggett, Executive Vice President of the International Longshoremen’s Association, and President of ILA Local 1804 will be the featured speaker tonight at the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) Region III Annual Honoree Reception held at Embassy Suites by Hilton in Boca Raton, Florida. Two ILA
NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (September 19, 2019) The International Longshoremen’s Association donated $50,000 from its ILA Disaster Relief Fund to an ILA Bahamas Relief Fund campaign that is collecting materials and equipment to help Bahamas recovery from the devastation of Hurricane Dorian that destroyed much of the islands in early September. International Vice President Kenneth
NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (September 12, 2019) The International Longshoremen’s Association is disaffiliating with the Maritime Labor Alliance (MLA), an organization it helped create seven years ago that brought together six national maritime unions who pledged to collectively promote maritime solidarity against attacks on jurisdiction; strengthen its collective bargaining position with maritime labor employers and
