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 ...

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 ...

As tensions over automation grow, 45,000 U.S. dockworkers are threatening a massive strike that could paralyze ports along the East and Gulf coasts. Why It Matters A standoff could send shockwaves ...

Dennis Daggett, executive vice president of ILA, said in a statement on Dec. 2, 2024, that the union is not “against progress, innovation, or modernization—but we cannot support technology ...

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.