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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 ...
Nearly 50,000 union longshoremen walked off the job at midnight Tuesday, shuttering at least 14 major ports across the East and Gulf Coasts that handle nearly half of all U.S. imports. Many ...
The top-tier hourly wage of $39 for longshoremen amounts to just over $81,000 annually, but dockworkers can make significantly more by taking on extra shifts. For example, according to a 2019-20 annual report from the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor, about one-third of local longshoremen made $200,000 or more a year.
The International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) with approximately 45,000 workers went on strike Oct. 1, as contract negotiations with the shipping industry's group US Maritime Alliance (USMX ...
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.
Here’s the latest information you need to know about the port strike. What are the workers going on strike over? You can sum up the strike issues in two words : Automation and wages.
A prolonged shutdown could deal a significant blow to the economy since the workers control major commercial choke points.
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 ...