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Negotiations between the ILA and the United States Maritime Alliance began breaking down in June 2024. [6] One major sticking point was wages. The ILA wanted members to receive a $5/hour raise each year of the next six-year contract, whereas the Maritime Alliance proposed a $2.50/hour raise each year. [6]
The ILA threatened to strike that month unless they would receive wage hikes and a ban on automation at U.S. ports. ILA members were offered a nearly 50% wage hike, triple employer contributions to pension plans, and better health care options while retaining current rules on automation, but the ILA rejected the offer and began a strike in October.
The suspension of cargo shipping on the East and Gulf coasts could hit the U.S. economy to the tune of $4.5 ... the ILA wrote that it would strike as long as needed to secure protections for its ...
The ILA members' strike, which consisted of over 47,000 port workers across the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, including 4,500 from New York and New Jersey, began on Tuesday, Oct. 1, as the union ...
Nearly 50,000 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) are on strike Tuesday against the nation’s East and Gulf Coast ports, choking off the flow of many of America’s ...
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) is a labor union which primarily represents dock workers on the West Coast of the United States, Hawaii, and in British Columbia, Canada; on the East Coast, the dominant union is the International Longshoremen's Association.
The USMX has reportedly offered to increase hourly wages by 62 percent over a six-year period, which the ILA said in a statement was sufficient to suspend the strike until January 15, a pause ...
The strike resulted in a massive defeat for the ILA, and employers began an effort to eliminate the ILA's presence on the waterfront. [ 4 ] Longshoremen on the West Coast ports had either been unorganized or represented by company unions since the years immediately after World War I , when the shipping companies and stevedoring firms had ...