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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.
The walkout represents the first East Coast dock strike since 1977. A total of 14 ports involving some 25,000 workers are affected by the strike, according to USMX:
On the evening of September 30, the eve of the strike, the U.S. Maritime Alliance proposed a 50% pay raise and a commitment to limited incorporation of automation, but not a complete ban, as a means to resume negotiations. The alliance also claimed that they had tripled port employer contributions to worker healthcare and retirement benefits.
Talks between the ILA, which represents more than 45,000 dockworkers across the U.S. East and Gulf coast ports, and the employer group are at an impasse over issues related to automation at port ...
The labor union representing the 45,000 U.S. dockworkers who went on strike in the fall is returning to the negotiating table with port employers amid threats of carrying out another strike at ...
The ILA members' strike, which consisted of over 47,000 port workers across the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, including 4,500 from New York and New Jersey, began on Tuesday, Oct. 1, as the union ...
The strike affecting 36 ports is the first by the union since 1977. ... Port Strike. Hundreds of longshoremen strike together outside of the Virginia International Gateway in Portsmouth, Va ...
The Port of New York and New Jersey, the busiest on the East Coast, said 100,000 containers were waiting to be unloaded, with 35 ships expected to arrive this week.