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), heart, speaks to picketing employees exterior the APM container terminal on the Port of Newark in Newark, New Jersey, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg through Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)
In line with Daggett’s biography on the ALI web site, he was first elected president of the union in 2011, and is presently 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 successful “groundbreaking protections for his ILA members towards 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 exterior 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, presently 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 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 through Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)
In 2017, The New York Instances reported that “the Justice Division, which has misplaced two circumstances towards [Harold] Daggett, has described him as an ‘affiliate’ of the Genovese crime household whose rise by the union ranks was a 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.
The information of Daggett’s salaries and luxurious life-style grabbed consideration on social media on Tuesday, and a report that the union chief bought his yacht final 12 months prompted Elon Musk — one of many richest males on the planet — to joke, “Dude had extra yachts than me!”
