ILA

Pressure grows on ILWU dockworkers, port employers as labor talks begin
http://www.dailynews.com/business/20161101/pressure-grows-on-dockworkers...

ILA, USMX to continue talks on contract extension to 2025
http://www.joc.com/port-news/longshoreman-labor/international-longshoremen’s-association/ila-usmx-continue-talks-contract-extension-2025_20150702.html
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor | Jul 02, 2015 2:46PM EDT

The Port of Miami
The International Longshoremen’s Association and its U.S. East and Gulf coast employers plan additional meetings after two days of “productive” talks on a contract extension that could run to 2025.

ILA’s Daggett, Waterfront Commission trade insults over wildcat strike probe "Daggett said the commission harasses ILA members “by holding their waterfront passes over their heads and threatening them with the loss of their jobs. It’s got to stop. They’re trying to run this port like SS troops in World War II."
http://www.joc.com/port-news/longshoreman-labor/international-longshoremen’s-association/ila’s-daggett-waterfront-commission-trade-insults-over-wildcat-strike-probe_20160621.html

How Bernie Sanders Could Actually Pull Off an Upset in South Carolina "Charles Brave, Jr., a longshore worker, former Riley ally and now vice-president of the state AFL-CIO, is one prominent African-American labor leader working for Sanders. He believes he has won over enough support for Sanders within the local to overturn Riley’s personal endorsement of Clinton at the next meeting, if Riley calls one before the primary."

Investigation begins into N.J., N.Y. port walkout, as dockworkers return "Union leaders said publicly they too had been caught unawares that their members had been planning to walk off the job, but cited growing anger by dockworkers over what they see as a growing "intrusion into their livelihoods" by waterfront commission, which licenses longshoremen."

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2016/02/investigation_begins_into_nj_ny...