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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.
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.
Over 47,000 dock workers had walked off the job late Monday night, including 4,500 from New York and New Jersey. It marked the ILA’s first strike since 1977, which lasted 45 days.
Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas began walking picket lines early Tuesday in a strike over wages and automation that could reignite inflation and cause shortages of goods if it goes on ...
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.
Here's the latest. Gannett. Emily Barnes, USA TODAY NETWORK. October 4, 2024 at 1:11 PM. It may take several days to a week to clear the backlog resulting from the port workers' strike, ...
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:
The massive port workers' strike that has shut down all the major dockyards on the Eastern seaboard of the U.S. and the Gulf coast is highlighting a fear held by many workers: Eventually, we will ...