Harold Daggett, Port Strike Leader, Seeks Big Raises for Dockworkers

Harold J. Daggett is seeking big raises for longshoremen on the East and Gulf Coasts who have fallen behind workers on the West Coast.Harold J. Daggett, president of the International Longshoremen’s Association, has cast the union’s walkout as a battle against large multinational corporations that earned outsize profits during the pandemic.