NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (Dec. 22, 2016) Sam DuPree, a popular ILA figure from the Port of New York and New Jersey, who joined the longshore union in 1959 working as a holdman and forklift operator and rose up to become President of one of the largest ILA Locals and serve as Executive Board member […]
NORTH BERGEN, NJ (November 28, 2016) – The International Longshoremen’s Association announced that former United States District Judge for the District of New Jersey, the Honorable Joel A. Pisano, has been appointed the union’s Ethical Practices Officer, replacing Judge Milton Mollen who had held the post since 2004. Judge Pisano recently returned to private practice
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Posted on November 29, 2016 by Jon Hiatt Jon Hiatt is Executive Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff at the AFL-CIO. Read the article here This post is part of a series on Labor in the Trump Years. Rather than slice and dice the electorate into different demographics and voting blocks, we have
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NORTH BERGEN, NJ (Nov. 29, 2016) – The International Longshoremen’s Association has scheduled “informal meetings on collective bargaining issues” during the week of February 13th, 2017 and has invited its locals at ports from Maine to Texas to participate. ILA President Harold J. Daggett sent a letter in mid-November to all ILA Local Unions covered
ILA Vice President Ken Riley Spearheads Humanitarian Relief Effort With Aide From ILWU Within two days after the deadly and destructive hurricane, Hurricane Matthew, roared across Freeport Grand Bahamas, the ILA was reaching out in solidarity to our dockworkers to assess the damage and to determine what kind of assistance was needed. It was shocking
