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A three-day ILA strike in October had triggered a surge in shipping prices and cargo backlogs at the 36 affected ports. Longshoremen returned to work after employers agreed to a 62% wage increase ...
Critics of the ILA urged Biden to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act, which empowers the president to suspend for 80 days a strike that can seriously threaten the U.S. economy.
Rooney says the Port Authority's economist estimated the New York and New Jersey area, which covers 19 counties, to take a hit of between $250-300 million per day as a result of the strike's port ...
The same day, the ILA said that Harold Daggett, its president, and other union officers, had received death threats since the strike began. The union said the threats were reported to police. President Joe Biden told reporters on October 3, 2024 that he thought progress was being made in ending the strike.
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 International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) with approximately 45,000 workers went on strike Oct. 1, as contract negotiations with the shipping industry's group US Maritime Alliance (USMX ...
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 ...
The ILA strike is the first at these ports since 1977 and has the potential to cost the economy up to $5 billion a day, upend holiday shopping for millions of Americans and dictate whether many ...