The strike, the first since 1977 for the ILA, has brought to a halt container traffic across 14 of the country’s busiest ports, including in New York, Georgia and Texas.
The ports are estimated by experts to handle more than a third of the US’s imports and exports. Disruption could lead to delays on goods deliveries for businesses and consumers.
Union filings from the Department of Labor indicate Daggett was paid a $728,000 salary by the ALI last year, and another $173,000 from 1804-1.
Daggett’s oldest son, Dennis Daggett, currently serves as the executive vice president of the ILA and as president of 1804-1. Dennis was paid salaries of $388,000 and $314,000, respectively, by the labor groups last year, filings show.
In 2017, The New York Times reported that “the Justice Department, which has lost two cases against [Harold] Daggett, has described him as an ‘associate’ of the Genovese crime family whose rise through the union ranks was part of the mob’s plan.”
The Times also noted that, at the time, the ILA president owned a 76-foot yacht, the Obsession, and Daggett had been seen riding in a Bentley by fellow ILA union members.
