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The Transportation Trades Department (TTD) of the AFL-CIO released a public statement prior to the strike in support of the organization and its aims, and accused the port employers of knowingly delaying contract negotiations to the last moment despite knowing the damage it would cause to American consumers and the U.S. economy, and using it to ...
The Port of L.A.'s Seroka said that even a short strike closing a port for just a week could cause a backlog that might take four to six weeks to clear.
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:
"The U.S. port strike has ended, but the impacts are far from over," Mia Ginter, director of North American Ocean Shipping at the logistics company C.H. Robinson, told Supply Chain Dive. "A week ...
The newly trained stevedores would then take part in an Australian non-union dock workers training program. The MUA was "tipped off" about the planned Fynwest operation and took the matter to the media who met the departing Fynwest employees as they boarded a flight to Dubai and questioned their "tourist" status.
The ILA launched the strike by 45,000 port workers, their first major work stoppage since 1977, on Tuesday, affecting 36 ports from Maine to Texas. JP Morgan analysts estimated the strike would ...
The 1889 London dock strike was an industrial dispute involving dock workers in the Port of London. It broke out on June 18, 1889, and resulted in victory for the 100,000 strikers when they won their pay claim of sixpence per hour, the so-called "dockers' tanner".
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 ...