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East and Gulf Coast port operators late Wednesday struck an agreement with a dockworkers union, resolving a labor dispute that had threatened to halt shipments for a second time in three months.
The 2024 United States port strike was a labor strike involving over 47,000 port workers who are part of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), impacting 36 ports across the United States primarily along the East Coast and the Gulf Coast.
California port operations could be affected if the striking longshore workers union in the East set up pickets here, as it did in San Francisco during the strike in 1977.
Only workers at 14 East and Gulf Coast ports are on strike; West Coast longshoremen are represented by a different union, which negotiated significant wage increases for its members in 2023. Under ...
Without a deal, the port workers were set to go on strike on the morning of January 16. “We are pleased to announce that ILA and USMX have reached a tentative agreement,” the two sides said in ...
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey lost between $250-300 million dollars a day during the strike by members of the International Longshoremen’s Association, said Bethann Rooney, the ...
Top-scale port workers now earn a base pay of $39 an hour, or just over $81,000 a year. But with overtime and other benefits, some can make in excess of $200,000 annually.
The walkout represents the first East Coast dock strike since 1977. A total of 14 ports involving some 25,000 workers are affected by the strike, according to USMX: