Quick Dig: Daggett / International Longshoremen’s Association (Strike)

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>Harold Daggett, leader of ILA

Mr. Harold J. Daggett, President, ILA

Mr. Dennis A. Daggett, Executive Vice President, ILA

Mr. John Daggett, General Vice President, Atlantic Coast District, ILA

https://ilaunion.org/officer-bios/

https://ilaunion.org/bio-harold-daggett/

Who are the Daggetts?

Waterfront Commission:

That was in 2005, and no other waterfront mobsters have turned up dead in any car trunks in the 18 years since Ricci met his fate. But in many ways, the nearly century-old legacy of organized crime is still felt along the sprawling New York–New Jersey port, even as the bistate agency established to clean up the docks — the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor — has been marked for extinction.

The move to eliminate the commission came last month after the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously approved the right of the state of New Jersey to withdraw from the 70-year-old agency.

The loudest cheers for the Supreme Court’s decision come from one of Ricci’s co-defendants who also won acquittal in the 2005 extortion case. Harold Daggett was elected president of the ILA, which represents some 43,000 workers in ports from Maine to Texas, in 2011. He is currently seeking a fourth term in office. He voiced jubilation at the demise of an agency that has been his union’s steady local antagonist

In addition to the criminal case, the Waterfront Commission joined federal prosecutors in Brooklyn in a 2005 civil racketeering case in which Daggett was described as a Genovese crime family associate who owed his union position to the support of organized crime. Daggett, who earns $638,00 a year as union president and whose son, Dennis, is a $308,000 executive vice president, has long adamantly denied the charge.

Hearings held by the commission in [2010] highlighted no-show and semi-show blue collar jobs that paid spectacularly well. Among the lucky jobholders was union shop steward Ralph Gigante, a nephew of Vincent “Chin” Gigante, the late Genovese family boss. Ralph Gigante, commission records showed, was paid $400,000 a year while working less than 30 hours per week.

Testifying at the hearing, [Daggett] countered that $400,000 is “not a lot of money today.”

https://www.thecity.nyc/2023/05/08/waterfront-commission-new-jersey-mob-genovese/

The ILA's initial demands included a 77% wage hike over six-year contract

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/east-coast-port-strike-what-to-know/

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>Who are the Daggetts?

Daggett, MI

Daggett was originally named "Section 25". The name "Daggett" refers either to Elmira Daggett, a New York native who came to the area to visit her brother and is then said to have become the village's first postmistress,[5] or to postmistress Clara Daggett's father (a native of Elmira, New York), the father-in-law of the village's founder, Thomas Faulkner

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daggett,_Michigan

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