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The International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) is a North American labor union representing longshore workers along the East Coast of the United States and Canada, the Gulf Coast, the Great Lakes, Puerto Rico, and inland waterways; on the West Coast, the dominant union is the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. The ILA has ...
Magden published an updated version of the book, titled The Working Longshoreman, in 1991. [6] The Port of Tacoma continues to regularly use Magden's book as a point of reference into the present-day. [7] In 1987, Magden was approached by ILWU, local 19 (Seattle longshore local), to write a history of their union.
Longshoremen on a New York dock load barrels onto a barge on the Hudson River. Photograph by Lewis Hine, c. 1912. Dockers load bagged cargo onto a barge in Port Sudan, 1960. A dockworker (also called a longshoreman, stevedore, docker, wharfman, lumper or wharfie) is a waterfront manual laborer who loads and unloads ships. [1]
For his part, Daggett made $728,694 in 2023 as ILA president and an additional $173,040 as president emeritus of the mechanics local chapter at Port Newark in New Jersey, according to documents ...
With a strike deadline looming, the group representing East and Gulf Coast ports is asking a federal agency to make the Longshoremen's union come to the bargaining table to negotiate a new contract.
Longshoremen in San Francisco, then the major port on the coast, were required to go through a hiring hall operated by a company union, known as the "blue book" system for the color of the union's membership book. The Industrial Workers of the World had attempted to organize longshoremen, sailors and fishermen in the 1920s.
Port of Seattle; Aerial view of the Seattle harbor, 2022, showing numerous container terminals operated by the Port of Seattle: Agency overview; Formed: September 5, 1911 () Jurisdiction: King County, Washington: Headquarters: 2711 Alaskan Way Seattle, Washington, U.S. Employees: 2,150 (2018) Annual budget: $670 million (2018) Agency executive
The British Columbia Maritime Employers Association is an association representing the interests of member companies in industrial relations on Vancouver's and other British Columbian seaports. The BCMEA currently consists of sixty-seven member companies with commercial interests based on the waterfronts of Vancouver and other seaports in ...