Nice job by members of ILA Local 1235 in Newark for their successful Toy Drive during this Holiday Christmas Season. Brandon Garcia, ILA Local 1235 President says: “Could not be prouder of the members of Local 1235. They generously donated gifts to over 150 children in need. It makes me grateful to serve each and […]
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With Support From International Longshoremen’s Association, Kenny Riley Leads Effort Spreading Christmas Cheer To Children In Remote Village of Garmu in Liberia, Western Africa NORTH BERGEN, NJ (December 22, 2020) – Hundreds of African children from the remote village of Garmu and surrounding areas in Liberia near the Western Africa shore were treated to an early
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NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (November 9, 2020) In late summer 2011, then U.S. Vice President Joe Biden hosted a small group of labor leaders, including ILA President Harold J.Daggett, at his residence in Washington, DC. There, the now President-Elect Joe Biden told the ILA leader of his long association with the longshore union, at the
NORTH BERGEN, NJ – (October 7, 2020) Andrew Lee Laws, Sr. , who started his career as a longshoreman and member of the International Longshoremen’s Association in 1949, when Harry S. Truman was our U.S. President and Joseph Ryan led the ILA, and who would accumulate an amazing 70-plus years on the Texas waterfront, passed
NORTH BERGEN, NJ. (October 2, 2020) Thousands of ILA members benefit from the amendment to the ILA-USMX Master Contract announced yesterday that will protect MILA coverage for eligible longshore workers for the current contract years that began yesterday. Harold J. Daggett, International President of the ILA told members in a letter sent out yesterday that in
