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A week ago, few outside the labor movement or shipping industry knew Harold Daggett, the tough-talking, colorful head of the union now on strike at ports along the East and Gulf Coasts.
That’s certainly no longer the case.
Daggett is the president of the International Longshoremen’s Association, which has nearly 50,000 union members on strike at three dozen different port facilities. The work stoppage has halted the movement of most of the containerized cargo moving into and out of the United States since early Tuesday.
This is the union’s
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