(WATCH) ILA Union President Asked If He’s Worried The Strike Will Hurt Ordinary Americans * 100PercentFedUp.com * by Danielle

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A reporter asked the president of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA). Harold J. Daggett when he worries that the longshoremen’s strike will hurt ordinary Americans.

“Now you’re starting to realize who the dock workers are, right? People never said anything about us until now, when they finally realize the chain is now broken,” Daggett said.

‘There are no cars coming in, no food coming in, no clothes coming in. Do you know how many people depend on our jobs? Half the world! And it’s time for them, and it’s time for Washington to put so much pressure on them to take care of us,” he continued.

WATCH:

“The ILA is demanding significant wage increases and a complete ban on the use of automated cranes, gates and trucks to move containers when unloading or loading cargo. Members of the union earn a base salary of approximately $81,000 per year, but some can earn more than $200,000 per year with large amounts of overtime.” CBS News wrote.

“Department of Labor union records show Daggett earned a gross salary of $728,000 last year,” Fox Business noted.

Daggett also owns a yacht and drives a Bentley, reports indicate.

From the New York Post:

Fiery union boss Harold Daggett has long cast himself as a staunch advocate for workers, even as he lived in luxury, owned a yacht and drove a Bentley – and fought alleged ties to the mafia.

Wearing a polo shirt with a thick gold medallion around his neck, the 78-year-old Daggett, who as president of the International Longshoremen’s Association is leading the port strikes stretching from Maine to Texas, was prone to theatrical flourishes in a September interview as he prepared prepare for the strike.

“They’ll be soon,” Daggett said, grabbing his neck in a choking gesture. ‘I will paralyze you. I will paralyze you and you have no idea what that means. Nobody does that.”

Since last year, Daggett has threatened to close the 36 ports covered by his union if “cash-crazed” shipping companies refuse to raise wages and offer workers protections from industrial automation.

“Who is going to support the families (of the workers)? Machines? Machines don’t have families,” he said earlier.

Meanwhile, Daggett — who worked at the ILA for 57 years and took over as president in 2011 — collected $728,000 in compensation from the ILA last year.

He collected another $173,000 as president emeritus of a local union chapter, according to Labor Department records.

He lives in a 7,136-square-foot home valued at $1.7 million on a 10-acre lot in Sparta, New Jersey, according to Zillow and NJ Property Records.

Per CBS News:

The work stoppage, the first at East Coast and Gulf Coast ports since 1977, follows a prolonged standoff in labor talks between the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX), a shipping industry group representing terminal operators and ocean carriers . .

According to USMX, the strike is expected to involve 25,000 workers and close 14 ports: Baltimore; Boston; Charleston, South Carolina; Jacksonville, FL; Miami (USMX groups Port Everglades in Ford Lauderdale, Florida, with the Port of Miami); Houston; Mobile, Alabama; New Orleans; New York/New Jersey; Norfolk, VA; Philadelphia; Savannah, Georgia; Tampa, FL; and Wilmington, Delaware.

“USMX initiated this strike when they decided to stand up to foreign-owned ocean liners making billions in profits at the ports of the United States, but not compensate the American ILA longshore workers who perform the work that gives them their wealth,” says ILA President Harold Daggett. This was stated in a statement on social media. “We are prepared to fight for as long as necessary, to continue to strike for any period of time, to get the wages and protection from automation that our ILA members deserve.”

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