The ILA disagrees. “This isn’t about safety or productivity—it’s about job elimination,” said Dennis Daggett, ILA executive vice president, in a release last month. “It’s about ...

They argue that the machines aren’t any more efficient than human labor. “This isn’t about meeting operational needs,’’ Daggett's son Dennis Daggett, the union’s executive vice president, wrote last ...

Union President Harold Daggett, Dennis Daggett's father, has called for "absolute airtight" contract language stating that there will be no automation or semi-automation at port terminals.

Dennis Daggett, the union’s executive vice president and son of Harold Daggett, wrote in a union statement last month that the move toward semi-automated cranes was “about job elimination.” ...