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With a strike deadline looming, the group representing East and Gulf Coast ports is asking a federal agency to make the Longshoremen's union come to the bargaining table to negotiate a new contract.
The Anderson Economic Group estimated that the U.S. economy would lose $2.1 billion from a one-week strike, $1.5 billion due to the loss in value or degradation of items such as perishable goods, $400 million for transportation company losses, and $200 million in lost wages for the striking port workers.
Major Longshoremen Strike Hits East Coast Ports. Dave Jamieson. October 1, 2024 at 10:11 AM. ... Their union, the International Longshoremen’s Association, failed to reach a new six-year ...
The strike affecting 36 ports is the first by the union since 1977. ... Hundreds of longshoremen strike together outside of the Virginia International Gateway in Portsmouth, Va., Tuesday, Oct. 1 ...
Before the strike, Johnnie Dixon, president of the Fort Lauderdale chapter of the ILA, told CBS News Miami that the union's demands are justified given the soaring prices consumers have faced ...
Longshoremen are on strike, shutting down East, Gulf ports. Economic losses of $5 billion per day can mean shortages, inflation and layoffs.
The strike could cost the economy up to $5 billion a day, upend holiday shopping for millions of Americans and dictate whether many small- and medium-sized businesses and farmers turn a profit or ...
The Five were longshoremen and union members of Local 1422 of the International Longshoremen's Association. They were peacefully protesting a Danish freight company's use of non-union workers on the Charleston docks when a fight broke out between picketing workers and a police force.