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Port strike union chief Harold Daggett: What to know

Editorial Board Published October 2, 2024
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FOX Enterprise correspondent Lydia Hu experiences the newest on the dockworkers strike after talking to Worldwide Longshoremens Affiliation Worldwide President Harold J. Daggett.

Worldwide Longshoreman’s Affiliation (ILA) President Harold Daggett has jumped into the nationwide highlight as he heads up negotiations for the union in its strike at ports throughout the U.S.

The ILA launched its first strike since 1977 early Tuesday with Daggett main the cost after the union’s six-year contract with the U.S. Maritime Alliance (USMX), which represents port employers, expired.

Harold Daggett, president of the Worldwide Longshoremen’s Affiliation (ILA), middle, speaks to picketing staff outdoors the APM container terminal on the Port of Newark in Newark, New Jersey, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg by way of Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)

Based on Daggett’s biography on the ALI web site, he was first elected president of the union in 2011, and is at present serving in his fourth four-year time period on the helm after working greater than 60 years within the trade. The write-up credit him with profitable “groundbreaking protections for his ILA members against the ravishes of automation” over the previous decade.

Daggett additionally served as president of Native 1804-1 for 14 years, stepping down in 2011 when he was named President Emeritus of the native. The ALI bio notes that the union honored Daggett by erecting a statue of him outdoors 1804-1’s North Bergen, New Jersey, headquarters in 2023.

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Union filings from the Division of Labor point out Daggett was paid a $728,000 wage by the ALI final 12 months, and one other $173,000 from 1804-1. 

Daggett’s oldest son, Dennis Daggett, at present serves as the chief vp of the ILA and as president of 1804-1. Dennis was paid salaries of $388,000 and $314,000, respectively, by the labor teams final 12 months, filings present.

Harold Daggett speaks at worker rally

Harold J. Daggett, president of the Worldwide Longshoremen’s Affiliation speaks as dockworkers on the Maher Terminals in Port Newark are on strike on October 1, 2024 in New Jersey.  (BRYAN R. SMITH/AFP by way of Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)

In 2017, The New York Instances reported that “the Justice Department, which has lost two cases against [Harold] Daggett, has described him as an ‘associate’ of the Genovese crime family whose rise through the union ranks was part of the mob’s plan.”

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The Instances additionally famous that, on the time, the ILA president owned a 76-foot yacht, the Obsession, and Daggett had been seen using in a Bentley by members.

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