{"id":11875,"date":"2011-12-15T15:39:57","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T20:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11875"},"modified":"2011-12-15T15:52:23","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T20:52:23","slug":"fifty-plus-year-longshoreman-elected-for-2nd-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11875","title":{"rendered":"Fifty Plus Year Long- shoreman Elected For 2nd Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY GWEN HAYES<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Sentinel Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The members of International Longshoremen Local 1402 re-elected its President to a second term.<\/p>\n<p><strong>James Harrell<\/strong> was re-elected by a large margin on December 6. He will serve for 3 years. His opponents were Alvin Lynch and Ernest Richards, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Harrell worked himself from the hole \u2013 loading and unloading ships &#8212; to the president\u2019s desk. He served as Vice President for 35 years \u2013 2 years under <strong>Perry Harvey, Sr<\/strong>. and 33 under <strong>Perry Harvey, Jr.<\/strong> He credits both with teaching him the business of the maritime market.<\/p>\n<p>Under his leadership are 2 vice presidents \u2013 <strong>Larry Coleman<\/strong> for Port Manatee and <strong>Wardell Norman<\/strong> for the Port of Tampa. During last week\u2019s election, <strong>Gregory Weston<\/strong> was elected Recording Secretary (replacing <strong>Sharon Wright<\/strong>, who died recently), 2 new board members were added: <strong>Eddie Dutchfield<\/strong> and<strong> Charles Johnson<\/strong>. And, elected to the Audit Committee were: <strong>Steve Hall<\/strong>, <strong>Ernest Richards, Jr.<\/strong> and <strong>Travis Norman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As a young man, his interest in working on the docks was sparked by an uncle, <strong>Joseph Harrell<\/strong>, who was a longshoreman in Tampa.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back on the business, <strong>Harrell<\/strong> says automation has limited the number of men who are able to make a living from working at \u2018the docks.\u2019 And, there are a number of badges that a worker has to have before starting to work, including going through background checks. \u201cMen can no longer get out of jail and come to the docks to get a job,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The work of the Bay Area longshoreman is limited to mostly cruise and container ships. He adds, however, that the job is still very rewarding.<\/p>\n<p>When he\u2019s not conducting longshoremen business, <strong>Harrell<\/strong> spends time with his wife, <strong>Linda F. Harrell<\/strong>.\u00a0 The father of 6 children occasionally attends Jesuit High School football games where his son is the head football coach.<\/p>\n<p>He is Chairman of the Board of Tampa Park Apartments, Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY GWEN HAYES Sentinel Editor The members of International Longshoremen Local 1402 re-elected its President to a second term. James Harrell was re-elected by a large margin on December 6. He will serve for 3 years. His opponents were Alvin Lynch and Ernest Richards, Jr. Harrell worked himself from the hole \u2013 loading and unloading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}