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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 ...
The ILA and USMX will need to agree upon a new master contract by Oct. 1, before the current six-year contract expires and the ILA pledges to go on strike. Show comments Advertisement
If union members walk off the job at ports stretching from Maine to Texas, it would be the first coast-wide ILA strike since 1977, affecting ports that handle about half the nation's ocean shipping.
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.
[12] [13] The ILA also demanded a 77% increase in wages over a six-year contract. [11] In a house-produced video posted to the ILA's YouTube channel, Daggett said “I will cripple you, and you have no idea what that means. Nobody does,” he explained: [14] “When my men hit the streets from Maine to Texas, every single port locked down.
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.
Before the strike, Johnnie Dixon, president of the Fort Lauderdale chapter of the ILA, told CBS News Miami that the union's demands are justified given the soaring prices consumers have faced ...
From July 1 to July 13, workers went on strike freezing the movement of billions of dollars worth of cargo at Canada's busiest ports. The union rejected a number of offers before voting to ratify the new deal in August. [30] [31] The union priorities were to address inflation and wages, job automation and port automation and contracting out ...