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Members of the International Longshoremen's Association union, which represents roughly 45,000 workers, on strike outside the Port of New York and New Jersey on the first day of the strike ...
As the ILA grew, power shifted increasingly to the Port of New York, where the branch headquarters for the International were established. There, a man named Joseph P. Ryan was organizing longshoremen as an officer of the ILA's New York District Council and in 1918, president of the ILA's "Atlantic Coast District".
The union has been pressing for wage increases of 77%, and its leader, Harold Daggett, doubled down on the demand as he spoke on the picket lines at the Port of New York and New Jersey. Top-scale ...
The Justice Department has lost two cases against Daggett, in which he was accused of being an associate of the Genovese crime family. [9] In testimony at a trial in 2005, George Barone, a former Genovese "soldier" who was a Mafia enforcer before turning state's evidence, testified that Daggett was controlled by the Mafia; in his own testimony, Daggett depicted himself as a victim of the Mafia ...
At midnight on October 1, dockworkers outside the Port of Philadelphia began to picket and demonstrate in a circle, chanting: “No work without a fair contract” next to a union truck bearing a message decrying the impact of automation on job security and workers' families. About fifty Port Houston dockworkers began to picket at 11 p.m. CST ...
Top-scale port workers now earn a base pay of $39 an hour, or just over $81,000 a year. But with overtime and other benefits, some can make in excess of $200,000 annually.
Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen and Unionism in the 1930s. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1988. ISBN 0-252-06144-6. Quin, Mike. The Big Strike. New York: International Publishers Company, 1996. ISBN 0-7178-0504-2. Selvin, David F. A Terrible Anger: The 1934 Waterfront and General Strikes in San Francisco. Detroit ...
For example, according to a 2019-20 annual report from the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor, about one-third of local longshoremen made $200,000 or more a year.