Between today’s #jobs report & yesterday’s deal to end the #longshoremen #ILA #strike, things are looking up for the #economy & #KamalaHarris!

[if only by taking away 2 BS talking points from the #RightWing #media & #MAGA folks]

#Longshoremen agree to suspend #strike, reopen #ports

Striking #dockworkers reached a tentative agreement w/port operators on Thurs for a 62% wage increase & have extended their contract through Jan 15 to bargain over remaining issues.

#ILA #USMX #union #economy #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/10/03/port-strike-over/

#HaroldDaggett is third generation #ILA member, his father & namesake, Harold Daggett, Sr., who worked in the ILA industry for 57 years.

So this guy is totally “On the Waterfront” legacy, the mafia always keeps it in the family.

But those hopes were swept away when #Biden said that he does not believe in #TaftHartley.

#HaroldDaggett had mocked the idea during an interview in early September [see above].

“Do you think when I go back for 90 days those men are gonna go to work on that pier?” Daggett said.

Now, he’s using his trademark aggression to fight suppliers, govt agencies & even President #Biden on the strikes – which will cause #supplychain logjams & could cost the #economy billions each day, according to JP Morgan.

Retailers, auto suppliers & produce importers had hoped Biden would impose the federal #TaftHartley Act, which allows US presidents to enact an 80-day cooling-off period that forces employees to return to work during certain labor disputes.

#HaroldDaggett’s sons — Dennis & John — reportedly earn similarly cushy salaries in their roles at the #union.

Dennis, the executive vice president of the #ILA, earned $250,156 in the fiscal year ended December 2022, acc/to ProPublica. John, the general vice president of the Atlantic Coast District ILA, reportedly earned $264,228 in the same period.

#Longshoremen #MAGA #scam #MafiaState #economy #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/135623897

Over the years, #HaroldDaggett has bad-mouthed the #WaterfrontCommission – a #regulatory agency that was formed following the movie & created to prevent #corruption among New York & New Jersey #ports.

Daggett called the commission’s accusations of #mob ties “total bulls–t” & a “dark, ugly attack on Italian Americans.”

During the course of the trial, one of Daggett’s co-defendants – Lawrence Ricci, an alleged major #mob figure – disappeared. His body was found weeks later decomposing in the trunk of a car outside a New Jersey diner.

Daggett was acquitted in 2 cases – even though the famous black-and-white mob movie “On the Waterfront” was inspired by his #longshoremen’s #union.

#HaroldDaggett took the witness stand that year after federal prosecutors charged him w/#racketeering.

He described himself as a target of the #mob – though a turncoat #Mafia member had testified Daggett was under the mob’s thumb, The New York Times reported.

#Longshoremen #MAGA #scam #MafiaState #economy #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/09/nyregion/three-longshoremen-not-guilty-of-fraud-and-other-charges.html

By comparison, his fellow #union bosses at the #AFL-CIO, #Teamsters & #autoworkers #unions earn less than $300,000 a year, acc/to a Politico report.

#HaroldDaggett formerly owned the Obsession – a 76’ yacht – & was seen zipping around in a Bentley, acc/to The NYT.

In 2005, Bush’s #Justice Department accused Daggett of being an “associate” of the Genovese crime family – one of the “Five Families” of the US #Mafia.

#HaroldDaggett — has worked at the #ILA for 57 years & took the helm as president in 2011 — raked in $728,000 in compensation last year from the ILA.

He collected another $173,000 as president emeritus of a local union branch, acc/to labor department filings.

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

#HaroldDaggett, the #union boss behind port #strikes makes over $900K a year, owns a yacht, drives a Bentley — & has alleged ties to the Mafia.

Images of the President of the #ILA’s meeting w/ #Trump circulated on socialmedia as the #union went on strike Tues.
The images are pulled from a July post on the union's website where union President #HaroldDaggett asked for members to "pray" for Trump in the wake of the assassination attempt in PA.
In the post Daggett recalled a 2023 meeting w/ Trump where the fmr president appeared to express support for the #Longshoremen.
#MafiaState #economy #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/10/01/harold-daggett-trump-photo-longshoremens-union/75474233007/

“We’re going to show these greedy bastards you can’t survive without us!” Daggett shouted to cheers from the crowd in a speech filled w/profanities & warnings about the threats automation poses to workers.

[listen, if he actually were doing this for the #workers, fine. But he’s not. He just wants the country to blame #Biden & #Harris for a downturn in the economy so #Trump gets elected]

#Longshoremen #union #scam #economy #strongarm #MafiaState #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.wsj.com/articles/harold-daggett-ila-port-strike-leader-3fad74f7

From the WSJ:

The Profane 78-Year-Old Leading the #Dockworkers Strike

‘They won’t be able to do anything in this country without my people,’ port #union chief #HaroldDaggett says in setting *audacious targets* in a coastwide #strike

Harold Daggett stood in front of the closed gates at the Port of New York & New Jersey just after midnight Tues & delivered a battle cry to hundreds of members of his #union that represents #portworkers from Maine to Texas.

Trump supporter & ILA head Harold Daggett: “I will cripple you.”

To be abundantly clear, they were offered a 50% raise BEFORE they went on #strike.