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Mr. Harold J. Daggett
International President
International Longshoremen's Association, AFL-CIO
Harold J. Daggett was unanimously elected as the ninth International President of the International Longshoremen's Association, AFL-CIO in at the union’s quadrennial convention in July 2011. As International President, Mr. Daggett serves as chief negotiator for the ILA representing 30,000 ILA members at port areas from Maine to Texas, Great Lakes region, Puerto Rico, major U.S. Rivers and Eastern and Central Canada.
Previously, Mr. Daggett served as Secretary-Treasurer of the Atlantic Coast District, ILA, a position to which he was first elected in 1991, with subsequent reelections in 1995 and 1999.
A third generation ILA member, Mr. Daggett followed in the footsteps of his father and namesake, Harold Daggett, Sr., who worked in the ILA industry for 57 years. Mr. Daggett himself is now a veteran of 45 years with the ILA having first joined ILA Local 1804-1 following an honorable discharge from the U.S. Navy in 1967, where he served in Vietnam in the mid-1960s.
He began his ILA career as a mechanic with Local 1804-l and eventually worked his way up to foreman. For 11 years, he was with Sea-Land Services until his appointment in 1980 as Secretary-Treasurer and Business Agent ILA Local 1804-1. He was later re-elected six times to that post, while also serving terms as Secretary-Treasurer of the New York-New Jersey District Council. In 1998, he was elected President of ILA Local 1804-1.
Daggett’s responsibilities with the ILA were expanded in 1991 with his election as Secretary-Treasurer of the Atlantic Coast District. He was later reelected ACD Secretary in 1995 and 1999.
For 12 years prior to his election as International President in 2011, Daggett served as an ILA Executive Officer; eight years as Assistant General Organizer and the most recent four years as Executive Vice President.
After leading the one of the largest locals in the ILA as president for 14 years, Harold Daggett stepped down as president of ILA Local 1804-1 in September 2011.
Mr. Daggett was born in West Greenwich Village in Lower Manhattan, New York and spent his boyhood years in Woodside, Queens. He distinguished himself in scouting, first as a Cub Scout and later as a Boy Scout with Troop 127 in Queens. In his adult life, Mr. Daggett was honored by the Greater New York City Council, Boy Scouts of America with their prestigious Good Scout Award.
Mr. Daggett later studied at Cardinal Farley Military Academy in upstate New York, from which he graduated from prior to joining the U.S. Navy.
Mr. Daggett has been a member of numerous labor and maritime committees. He has served as a Wage Scale delegate for his local since 1981.
For Master Contract negotiations, Mr. Daggett served on the Jurisdiction sub-committee.
Through his leadership, Mr. Daggett and the members of Local 1804-1 have raised more money for the ILA Children's Fund – which benefits The Hole In the Wall Gang Camp – than any other local in ILA. Mr. Daggett is actively involved in other charities, including Toys for Tots and St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital.
The father of three children – Lisa, Dennis and John – Harold Daggett and his wife Patricia reside in Sparta, New Jersey.
Harold J. Daggett
International President
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