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NORTH BERGEN, NJ (June 20, 2025) Two monumental events that occurred a quarter of a century ago that world shape the course of International Dockworker solidarity and ignited the power of dockworkers joining together to fight for workers’ rights, equality, and respect from employers, will be celebrated over five days in Charleston, South Carolina from […]

To my 85,000 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association, I wish you all a Happy Father’s Day. This holiday is very special to our International, and for me. For generations in the ILA, dating back to our founding in 1892, fathers have worked the ILA Waterfront providing for their families. From our beginnings, a powerful

NORTH BERGEN, NJ (June 4, 2025) With less than a week to go before the New Jersey Democratic Gubernatorial Primary on Tuesday, June 10th, 2025, hundreds of ILA New Jersey members, families and friends will participate in one of eight statewide labor walks to generate support and “Get Out the Vote” for the ILA’s endorsed

NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (June 2, 2025) William B Sampson IV, a member of Local 1588, International Longshoremen’s Association and the incumbent candidate for the New Jersey Assembly, District 31, is confident ILA members and their families living in Hudson County’s Bayonne, Jersey City and Kearney , will turn out to vote on Tuesday, June

NORTH BERGEN, NJ (June 2, 2025) – The International Dockworkers Council (IDC) will honor the 25th Anniversary of the “ILA’s Charleston Five”, a remarkable and historic event that began with a January 20th, 2000, protest by ILA members in the Port of Charleston, South Carolina against the use of non-union labor that sparked a world-wide