September 20, 2018 To Our Sister and Brother Portuguese Dockworkers: The International Longshoremen’s Association stands with our Sister and Brother Portuguese Dockworkers and in full solidarity with them as they stage a 24-hour strike today, September 20, 2018, and throughout this month at ports including Leixões and Lisbon. The tens of thousands of ILA members
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NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (September 8, 2018) The International Longshoremen’s Association endorses Robert Menendez for reelection to the U.S. Senate from the State of New Jersey. “Today, the thousands of ILA members and their families who live and work in New Jersey proudly and enthusiastically endorse our friend and champion of workers, Senator Bob Menendez for
ILA President Harold Daggett today notified ILA locals covered by the Master Contract that a ratification vote on the proposed Six-Year Contract that was overwhelmingly approved by ILA Wage Scale Committee in early June will take place next Thursday, September 6 from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. “As your International President, I am pleased to
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The Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority has no power to intervene in a labor dispute between the stevedore company that operates one of its docks and a labor union, lawyers retained by a member of the port’s board of directors have advised. But Basil W. Mangano, a local representative of the Cleveland-based Mangano Law Offices, advised
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A long-simmering labor dispute between a local longshoremen’s union and a Port of Toledo stevedore has led to three ocean freighters being waylaid at the Port of Toledo and a fourth boat being turned away — potentially costing the terminal tens of thousands of dollars a day in lost work. Local 1982 of the International
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