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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. The strike began at midnight EST on October 1, 2024, following the expiration of a contract ...
October 1, 2024 at 11:04 AM. LOS ANGELES - Tens of thousands of unionized port workers on the U.S. Gulf and East Coasts walked off the job as part of a major labor strike. SUGGESTED COVERAGE ...
The unloading of containers from ships will resume at 7pm ET this evening, so the port will have seen four days of inactivity. That’s about $1 billion in economic losses to a single port. There ...
Passed in 1947, the Taft-Hartley Act was a revision of U.S. law governing labor relations and union activity that granted a U.S. president the power to suspend a strike for an 80-day “cooling ...
The Port of Long Beach, administered as the Harbor Department of the City of Long Beach, is a container port in the United States, which adjoins Port of Los Angeles. [3] Acting as a major gateway for US–Asian trade, the port occupies 3,200 acres (13 km 2 ) of land with 25 miles (40 km) of waterfront in the city of Long Beach, California .
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is the largest municipal utility in the United States with 8,100 megawatts of electric generating capacity (2021–2022) and delivering an average of 435 million gallons of water per day (487,000 acre-ft per year) to more than four million residents and local businesses in the City of Los Angeles and several adjacent cities and communities ...
October 2, 2024 at 7:35 AM. The status of cruise operations was in the spotlight after unionized dockworkers at ports along the East and Gulf Coasts hit the picket lines on Tuesday. While cargo at ...
An analysis by JPMorgan estimated the daily cost of a port strike by East and Gulf Coast port workers to the U.S. economy will be between $3.8 billion and $4.5 billion per day as operations slow.