Harold Daggett — head of a union that has vowed to “paralyze” the U.S. economy unless ports ban automation and significantly raise wages for longshoremen — announced this week that A Bentley convertible was parked outside the mansion, The Paper obtained exclusive photos. Post published.
Photos taken by drone on Tuesday show a British luxury car outside what appears to be a five-car garage connected to his 7,136-square-foot Tudor home by a covered skyway. It is shown parked with the top up.
This massive two-story mansion sits on 10 acres in the leafy enclave of Sparta, 80 miles west of New York City, and wraps around a spacious backyard patio with an amoeba-shaped pool . The covered outdoor bar is located next to what looks like a giant brick pizza oven.
A gate across the patio opens onto what appears to be a separate sauna surrounded by a spacious wooden deck. A vast forest surrounds the site on all sides.
The luxury home is located in a picturesque neighborhood in the Garden State near the Delaware Water Gap, where five-bedroom homes are listed for as much as $6 million, according to Zillow. .
A real estate agent who spoke to the Post said Daggett put the four-bedroom, six-and-a-half bathroom property on the market in 2004 for a list price of $3.1 million, which he later lowered to $2.9 million. . He eventually removed it from the market.
Mr. Daggett, who is suspected of having ties to the Mafia, is president of the International Longshoremen's Association, and the job includes an additional $173,000 from ILA-Local 1804-1, plus an annual salary of $728,000. are paid a salary of US$.
According to reports, the 78-year-old, who often appears in public wearing a polo shirt and a thick gold medal around his neck, portrays himself as a staunch defender of blue-collar workers, but previously He also owned a 76-foot yacht. .
“This is what they're going to do,” Daggett said in an interview last month, as the unions negotiating the ports and the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) grabbed him by the neck and made a choking gesture. Unable to reach agreement on new contract.
“I'm going to cripple you. I'm going to cripple you and you don't know what that means. Nobody does that,” he said.
More than 45,000 longshoremen went on strike Tuesday, closing 36 ports from Maine to Texas for the first time in nearly half a century.
The dockers' strike, the first since 1977, could continue for more than a few weeks and disrupt supply chains, leading to shortages and price hikes. It also costs the U.S. economy more than $3 billion a day.
Workers walked the picket line after midnight Tuesday, holding placards calling for more funding and a ban on automation that could cost workers their jobs.
If the strike lasts this long, experts say, consumers likely won't notice the shortage for at least a few weeks, although some fresh produce, such as bananas, could disappear from grocery stores. At this time of year, while most other fruits and vegetables are domestically grown, they are not grown and processed in the port, said Alan Siger, president of the Produce Distribution Association.
In anticipation of the strike, most major retailers also stocked up on merchandise and brought forward shipments of holiday gift items.
USMX said both sides have deviated from their original positions.
The partnership offered a 50% salary increase over the six-year term of the agreement.
Comments from union leaders briefly suggested raising wages to 61.5%, but the union has since indicated it is sticking to its original demand for a 77% wage increase over six years.
“We have demonstrated our determination to do our part to end completely avoidable ILA attacks,” the alliance said on Tuesday.
The group says the port's offer is higher than a recent union settlement offer.
“We look forward to hearing from the coalition on how we can get back to the table and actually negotiate. That's the only way to reach a solution,” the statement said.
On Tuesday, the Biden administration pressured port employers to increase their offers to secure contracts for longshoremen.
Administration officials, led by Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su, are urging both sides to return to the negotiating table.
with post wire
