ILA Union Chief wants our roadways to be run like U.S. Ports again

Back to the future: remember tollbooths? 

Union boss Harold Daggett rages against E-ZPass for costing union jobs in video weeks before strike shut down ports

Harold Daggett, the union boss who shut down 14 US shipping ports, went on a wild rant about technology just weeks before dockworkers went on strike Tuesday – and even took aim at E-ZPass. 

The head of the International Longshoreman’s Association decried the loss of toll booth workers because the shift to E-ZPass allows motorists to zip through “like it’s nothing and then get billed in the mail,” according to an interview last month.

“All those union jobs are gone,” he said in the Q&A posted to ILA’s YouTube channel on Sept. 5.

The foul-mouthed boss also fumed over the proliferation of self-checkout kiosks in retail stores.

“Someone needs to go to Congress and say, ‘Whoa, time out,’ this world is going too fast for us. Machines have got to stop,” he said during the 17-minute video.

Daggett, who has led the union since 2011 and rakes in nearly $1 million in salary, has demanded a nearly 80% pay increase for ILA’s 45,000 workers from Maine to Texas and an end to automation projects by port operators. 

Needless to say, Mr. Daggett has the full support of the Harris-Biden administration.

Here’s the video — begin at 4:45