This education link has been set up to keep all ILA members informed of what’s taking place in our industry; past and present. This site will include articles, stories, photographs and videos. At times, some of the videos will include training and be educational. Other times, we will take a look into our past and learn more and more about the history of this union and how it was built into what it is today.
ILA Education/History
OFFICIAL ILA EDUCATION/HISTORY PAGE ENDORSED BY OUR INTERNATIONAL
Never forget the sacrifices ILA members made to build our great union into what it is today
THE INTERNATIONAL LONGSHOREMEN’S ASSOCIATION
ESTABLISHED 1892
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STAND UNITED STRONG IN SOLIDARITY UNITY DIGNITY HONOR RESPECT AND PRIDE "LET USMX MARITIME ALLIANCE KNOW DON'T FUCK WIT ILA LOCAL 1410 MOBILE, ALABAMA
ILA LOCAL 1804-1 UNION MEETING/HOLIDAY PARTY
THE GROVE
CEDAR GROVE, NJ
DECEMBER 9, 2025
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Merry Christmas to all my union brothers and sister
Great Meeting!
Great meeting!
Merry Christmas and happy holidays
Great meeting!
Great shots from the ILA LOCAL 1804-1 UNION MEETING/HOLIDAY PARTY!
ILA Local 1804 1 All The Way 💯💪🇺🇸
GREAT MEETING 👌
Port of NY/NJ
ILA LOCAL 1804-1 SALUTES THE AMERICAN FLAG AS THEY RECITE THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AT THEIR ANNUAL UNION MEETING/HOLIDAY PARTY AT THE GROVE BANQUET HALL IN CEDAR GROVE, NJ
In photograph, from left to right:
Peter Clark, Business Agent
Dennis Daggett, President
Harold Daggett, President Emeritus
Michael Vigneron, Secretary Treasurer
John Daggett, Vice President
Billy Hartigan, Business Agent
John Sheridan, General Counsel
James McNamara, ILA Chief of Staff
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The Best!🙏🙏🎊🙌💪
🎉🇺🇸🙏
Port of NY/NJ
ILA LOCAL 1804-1 EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBERS COME TOGETHER FOR THEIR UNION MEETING/HOLIDAY PARTY AT THE GROVE BANQUET HALL IN CEDAR GROVE, NJ
In photograph, left to right, is:
Michael Vigneron, Secretary Treasurer
John Daggett, Vice President
Peter Clark, Business Agent
Billy Hartigan, Business Agent
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“ Merry ( upcoming ) Christmas “
Great group right there!
Merry Christmas, 4 great guys right there .
Port of NY/NJ
ILA LOCAL 1804-1 PRESIDENT DENNIS A. DAGGETT WELCOMES THE MEMBERSHIP TO THEIR UNION MEETING/HOLIDAY PARTY AT THE GROVE BANQUET HALL IN CEDAR GROVE, NJ
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Nelson Lombardo Lopez. Local 1804-1 Union power, God Bless ILA. Great Leadership, Thank's Harold, Dennis, and Jhon Daggett...
Best of the best!! Love you brother!!!
You all the best!! Thank you!! ❤️❤️
Missed 🙃🙃…Loved to be there!!! 🇺🇸🤘🍷🍷
👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO WATCH THIS ALARMING VIDEO OF HOW CORPORATE GREED CONTINUES TO DISRESPECT THE AMERICAN WORKERS
United States Senator Josh Hawley calls out the CEO at Boeing for taking home a $32.8 million dollar salary while at the same time giving the 32,000 machinists a disgraceful 1% raise.
A 1% INCREASE IN SALARY OVER EIGHT YEARS FOR THE MACHINISTS WHILE THE CEO GOT A 45% INCREASE IN SALARY OVER ONE YEAR!!
DISRESPECTFUL AND DISGUSTING!!
The greed in the corporate world has got to stop!!
Without those machinists Boeing wouldn’t even exist!!
Thank you to U.S. Senator Hawley for holding these greedy CEO’s accountable!!
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Love to see a Republican Senator backing the union workers. We have Boeing here in North Charleston and the only reason they are here is because of the promises of the Governor and the Republican lawmakers to keep the union out. Less than 1% of South Carolina is unionized and it is due to the decades-old campaign of indoctrination to perpetuate the falsehood that unions are bad. Hopefully the youth of our great state are not fooled and are able to rise in defiance and help make the working-class people of South Carolina strong and united!!
Rich get richer and richer poor get poor and poor that's why stuff cost so much
Corporate greed is at its worst in the history of this country .
Port of NY/NJ
ILA LOCAL 1235
ILA Local 1235 members Billy Flanagan and Matt Cabrera, who have worked many years on the waterfront, are rigging a transformer in high winds to put on a rail car at Ports America, Port of NY/NJ.
“We do a lot of physical labor. Some of these shackles can weigh up to 100 pounds,” remarked Matt Cabrera.
**ILA…UNSTOPPABLE**
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Matt, we need you on the car ship. I got 2600 cars tomorrow.
Those slings are no joke either.
Nice job boys
I took this picture.
How do I apply?
 easy money lol
Hahaha 😝
HOW DO ILA LASHERS/LONGSHOREMEN KEEP CONTAINERS SECURE WHEN A SHIP LEAVES A PORT AND ENDURES WAVES THAT CAN REACH 60 FEET HIGH?
(Please take a moment to watch the video below)
RESPECT TO THE ILA LASHERS/LONGSHOREMEN
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The vessel crew will add additional lashing
🧲 magnets are neet
Because that’s what we do
I was called the top man,because only a hand full of lashers would get on top of 6 and 7 high containers, put on by the cranes spreader bar,and put on bridges,or clamps to pull the boxes tight,with a big pipe wrench..been on top in rain,strong wind and sometimes a thin sheet of ice and in the old days 70ts and 80ts we didn't have eddy gear harness to hook up to in case of falling..worked as a lasher for 35 years..seen it all,but glad I did,great union and great workers.retired in 2011..Blessed.
Because lashers are the greatest people on the planet
Port Houston, TX
September 29, 1936
ILA members working on the Houston waterfront during the fall of 1936.
The ILA was established in 1892.
In 1910, the South Atlantic and Gulf Coast District was born as charters to cover ILA members at ports in the south and gulf were granted.
The original Port of Houston was located at the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou in downtown Houston by the University of Houston–Downtown. This area is called “Allen’s Landing” and is now a park. It is the birthplace of the City of Houston.
Shipping points grew at multiple locations on Buffalo Bayou including the port of Harrisburg (now part of Houston) and the docks on the Allen Ranch. By the end of the 19th century Buffalo Bayou had become a major shipping channel with traffic beginning to rival Galveston.
The citizens of Harris County approved creation of the modern port in 1909, believing that an inland port would better serve the region after the destructive Galveston Hurricane of 1900. President Woodrow Wilson officially opened the port to traffic as the World Port of Houston and Buffalo Bayou on November 10, 1914. In the 1930s the Port became the focus of labor conflict, with sometimes intense battles between strikers and authorities, during the 1935 Gulf Coast longshoremen’s strike and the 1936 Gulf Coast maritime workers’ strike among other incidents.
By 1961, it was already among the busiest ports in the US. In 1977 the Port of Houston opened the Barbours Cut Terminal, Texas’ first cargo container terminal, at Morgan’s Point. This new terminal, in the Bay Area, quickly became the port’s most important terminal. The opening of the Bayport Terminal in 2006 further extended the port authority’s reach outside the city of Houston.
**Port Houston is the first port to have a direct shipment of cotton to Europe (November 1919)
**Port Houston is the first port to introduce the double-stack container train (1981)
**Port Houston is the first port to conduct air emissions testing of its off-road equipment (2000)
Today, Port Houston is an essential economic engine for the Houston region, the state of Texas, and the United States.
Photo Credit:
University of Houston
Digital Collection
Thank You!
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Wow
WE ARE THE INTERNATIONAL LONGSHOREMEN’S ASSOCIATION
ESTABLISHED 1892
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LOCAL #24 PROUD 2006
I.L.A strong from local 1997 💪 🇨🇦