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LISBON, PORTUGAL – (November 5, 2025) The leader of the 85,000-member International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) opened the historic “People Over Profits: Anti-Automation Conference” in Lisbon, Portugal today and told hundreds of global dockworker and maritime union members that the threat of automation is “a full-blown attack on our very existence.”   He called for all […]

NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (October 24, 2025) The Twelfth Annual International Longshoremen’s Association Civil, Human & Women’s Rights Committee Award Dinner will honor four Industry leaders at a dinner scheduled for Saturday, November 1, 2025, at the Envue Autograph Collection Hotel in Weehawken, New Jersey.  A reception begins at 6 pm with the dinner and

NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (October 23, 2025)   The goal of International Longshoremen’s Association President Harold J. Daggett to bring dockworker and other maritime union leaders from around the world together for a conference to combat the ongoing threat of automation will be achieved in less than two weeks in Lisbon, Portugal. In that Western

NORTH BERGEN, NJ (October 16, 2025)  As job losses continue to mount globally at an alarming rate due to the ravages of automation, Harold J. Daggett, the president of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) is urging all Maritime Unions to attend an upcoming anti-automation conference his union is organizing along with the world-wide International Dockworkers

NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (October 15, 2025) ILA President Harold Daggett came out swinging today in a strongly worded letter of support and solidarity with the officers and members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, after California Governor Gavin Newsom turned his back on working men and women and vetoed a bi-partisan bill (SB