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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.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey lost between $250-300 million dollars a day during the strike by members of the International Longshoremen’s Association, said Bethann Rooney, the ...
Roughly 25,000 dockworkers went on strike this week at ports along the East and Gulf Coasts of the U.S. to rally for higher pay and stronger guardrails around their jobs being automated out of ...
The Anderson Economic Group estimated that the U.S. economy would lose $2.1 billion from a one-week strike, $1.5 billion due to the loss in value or degradation of items such as perishable goods, $400 million for transportation company losses, and $200 million in lost wages for the striking port workers.
Back in 2023, the West Coast union negotiated wage increases for its workers. Why is the port strike happening? ... with pay rising to $24.75 after two years, $31.90 after three, ...
The port workers' strike is in its second day, with 45,000 dock workers looking for a pay raise and a ban on automation in their next contract.
A 2019-2020 report by the Waterfront Commission, which oversees New York Harbor, found that a third of the longshoremen based there made $200,000 or more annually including overtime pay. That didn ...
The contract between the ports and about 45,000 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association expired at midnight, and even though progress was reported in talks on Monday, the workers ...