ILA News

NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (October 15, 2015) The Maritime Labor Alliance, comprising six of the country’s leading maritime labor organizations, appointed Dr. Thomas Mackell to a newly created post of Executive Director, at the Alliance’s semi-annual meeting this week in Washington, DC. Dr. Mackell, whose involvement with maritime labor organizations spans decades, is currently Special […]

Benny Holland, Jr. and Clyde Fitzgerald To Be Honored By ILA’s Civil Rights Committee This Saturday At Dinner in Houston, Texas Benny Holland, Jr., and Clyde Fitzgerald, two top leaders of the International Longshoremen’s Association who have collectively led the union’s South Atlantic and Gulf Coast District for more than a quarter of a century,

On behalf of tens of thousands of Sister and Brother members of the International Longshoremen’s Association working at ports from Maine to Texas, Great Lakes, major U.S. rivers, Puerto Rico and Eastern Canada, we wish all working American Families a Happy Labor Day. The ILA is proud of its members who move the cargo in

The families of the nine parishioners who were killed at the Emanuel AME Church and Walter Scott – who was killed by police in North Charleston in April – will lead the Days of Grace March in Charleston, SC on Saturday, September 5. “My son had a favorite quote from Jackie Robinson that ‘a life

ILA Local 1422 Organizing Labor Day Weekend “Charleston’s Days of Grace, Love’s Work Is Justice” Saturday and Sunday, September 5 & 6, 2015; ILA President Harold Daggett Urges Full Participation In March, Rally & Conference NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (August 12, 2015) Following up on plans first announced by International Longshoremen’s Association Vice President Kenneth