According to a press release from earlier this month, almost 300 International Longshoremen’s Association Wage Scale Delegates ended their two-day Wage Scale Meetings in New Jersey on Sept. 5 by unanimously supporting International President Harold J. Daggett’s call for a coastwide strike at ports from Maine to Texas on October 1, 2024, if a new agreement with United States Maritime Alliance is not reached at that time.
“On the second day of meetings in Teaneck, New Jersey attended by ILA Wage Scale Delegates from the 13 port areas that are part of the ILA-USMX Agreements, ILA Executive Vice President Dennis A. Daggett laid out the union’s Strike Mobilization Plan that would be enacted if a new agreement is not reached by the September 30th expiration of the current six-year agreement,” the press release stated.
We first reported on the news in August.
