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The supply chain disruption and economic impacts could be in fact be catastrophic with each passing day that the 36 ports are shut down — as much as $5 billion a day as imports and exports are ...
The union representing thousands of dockworkers from Maine to Texas launched a strike over wages and the use of automation, shutting down major seaports. Dockworker strike shuts down ports in the ...
Thousands of East and Gulf Coast port workers launched a historic strike on October 1. ... making more than $116,000 a year, versus $81,000 for their counterparts in the East. ... as promptly as ...
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]
Talks have broken down between the 47,000-member International Longshoremen’s Assn. and the United States Maritime Alliance, which represents employers at some of the largest ports in the nation ...
In protest of the Iraq War, the ILWU encouraged longshore workers to "shut down all West Coast ports" by walking off the job on May 1, 2008, to "make May Day a 'No Peace, No Work' holiday." On May 1, more than 10,000 ILWU members from all 29 West Coast ports voluntarily stopped work, with some attending rallies held by the ILWU where the union ...
C.T.C. No. 1 is a 620-foot-long cargo hauler brought to the south Chicago ports in 1982. With a capacity of 16,300 tons, this ship was used for storage and transfer of cement until its termination in 2009.
Thirty-six East Coast and Gulf Coast ports shut down as 45,000 union ... U.S. dock workers and port operators reached a tentative deal on wages that will end a three-day strike that has shut down ...