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A Labor Day Message from Harold J. Daggett, International President, International Longshoremen’s Association NORTH BERGEN, NJ (September 1, 2025) As America prepares to celebrate Labor Day 2025, the International Longshoremen’s Association takes its rightful place as one of the strongest unions across the nation with the greatest six-year Master Contract Agreement in place and soon […]

NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (July 28, 2025) Charles Ward, Executive Director of the NYSA-ILA Pension Trust Fund and President of the ILA New York-New Jersey District Council, announced that a seminar will be held Tuesday evening, July 29th, 2025 beginning at 6 pm at the Holiday Inn, 160 Frontage Road, Newark, to discuss details of

This rebuttal stems from a Journal of Commerce article we recently shared on the official ILA Facebook page. In it, LucArnouts, Vice President of International Relations and Networks at the Port of Antwerp, recently made the outrageous claim that cutting a work gang from eight dockworkers to four is somehow a positive step. His reasoning?

To my fellow Maritime Workers across the globe, Two years ago, at the ILA’s Quadrennial Convention in Hollywood, Florida, I stood before the world and issued a stern warning: Do not underestimate the Maritime Unions of the world! That message wasn’t my grandstanding. It was a call to action, a declaration that the days of