Reformers Taking Office In New Jersey ILA Federally Supervised Local

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Reformers Taking Office In New Jersey ILA Federally Supervised Local - 04/24/07

By Doug Cunningham

An elected reform slate that includes at least one member of the Longshore Workers Coalition is taking over the International Longshoremen’s Association Local 1588 in Bayonne, New Jersey May 1st. The local is under federal government supervision to keep the mob from reasserting its influence in the local. That supervision will last for at least another 18 months. The government has long asserted that crime families are corrupting the dockworker’s unions in New York and New Jersey. A federal trusteeship was imposed on ILA Local 1588 four years ago to end mafia domination.