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ILA Suffers Two More Deaths To COVID-19 As Otis Saleem Johnson From ILA Local 1233 and Orlando Mercado From ILA Local 1235 Pass Away From Coronavirus

COVID-19 Updates, ILA News

NORTH BERGEN, NJ (April 4, 2020). The International Longshoremen’s Association continues to suffer loss of life due to COVID-19. ILA members Otis Saleem Johnson, from Local 1233 in Newark, and Orlando Mercado, from Local 1235, passed away in recent days from Coronavirus. Scores of ILA members have relatives that have contracted COVID-19 and several have […]

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ILA Suffers Deaths of Two ILA Members From Port Of New Orleans Who Succumb To COVID-19; Entire ILA Devastated At Loss of Fellow Members From ILA Local 3000, New Orleans

COVID-19 Updates, ILA News

NORTH BERGEN, NJ. (April 1, 2020). The horrible COVID-19 Pandemic has claimed the lives of two ILA members from the Port of New Orleans, Louisiana. Brothers Wendell Lacour and Robert Givens. passed away yesterday from the Coronavirus. Both Brother Lacour and Givens were members of ILA Local 3000, in the Port of New Orleans and

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ILA Members and Locals Adjusting To New World of Living and Working With COVID-19; Balancing Work and Safety As Nation Looks To Brave Dockworkers To Keep Supply Chains Open

COVID-19 Updates, ILA News

NORTH BERGEN, NJ (March 26, 2020) – The world has changed mightily for Johnny Dixon in six short weeks. Back on Sunday, February 9, 2020, he was installed as President of ILA Local 1526, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida where ILA leader from around the country joined him in the celebration at Port Everglades. ILA Executive

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ILA Holding Daily Telephonic Meetings With Management, State Governments and Port Stakeholders To Fight For ILA Members’ Safety Amid COV-19 Crisis

COVID-19 Updates, ILA News

NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (March 25, 2020). ILA President Harold J. Daggett knows that tens of thousands of ILA members are showing up for work each day at waterfront facilities from Maine To Texas, plus the Great Lakes region, Canada and Puerto Rico, helping to keep our ports open to supply our nations, while all

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