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Longshoremen strike at midnight at Bayport Terminal on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024, in Houston. (AP Photo/Annie Mulligan) via Associated Press The Maritime Alliance had accused the union of walking away ...
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.
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 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.
Welcome to The Hill’s Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Dockworkers poised to strike at midnight Tens of thousands of longshoremen at ...
Published June 23, 1916, Seattle Star On June 1, 1916, workers in all twelve West Coast ports went on strike to demand higher wages and an end to the open-shop system. [1] [3] [5] [2] [6] A brief truce was established on June 9 but quickly collapsed after striking workers were killed in San Francisco and Seattle.
The striking of US port workers on the East and Gulf coast could impact certain stocks. Port workers are demanding a 61.5% raise and oppose the adoption of automation in new contract negotiations.
As of Oct. 1, dockworkers at major East and Gulf Coast ports have officially gone on strike. The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA), representing around 85,000 workers, failed to ...