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The Anderson Economic Group estimated that the U.S. economy would lose $2.1 billion from a one-week strike, $1.5 billion due to the loss in value or degradation of items such as perishable goods, $400 million for transportation company losses, and $200 million in lost wages for the striking port workers.
The strike — which has shut down 14 ports along the East and Gulf coasts on Tuesday, Oct. 1 — comes after labor talks between the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and the ...
A port strike will impact vehicle imports, auto parts, machinery, fabricated steel, precision instruments, computers, electronic parts and alcohol - 80% of imported beer, wine, whiskey and scotch ...
Thousands of dock workers at ports along the East and Gulf coasts went on strike early Tuesday morning amid a contract dispute, halting the flow of goods with a potentially costly work stoppage.
The ports handle about half the ocean imports in the U.S. Varying estimates say the strike encompasses 25,000 to 50,000 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association. All told, the ILA ...
While the IWW was a spent force after that strike, syndicalist thinking remained popular on the docks. [9] Longshoremen and sailors on the West Coast also had contacts with an Australian syndicalist movement that called itself the "One Big Union" formed after the defeat of a general strike there in 1917. [10]
But the International Longshoremen’s Association — representing about 25,000 port workers on the East and Gulf coasts — went on strike when a contract expired at midnight Sept. 30.
1967 US Railroad strike: 1967 nationwide 440,000 [1] 1971 Telephone strike: 1971 nationwide 400,000 [6] 1970 General Motors Strike: 1970 nationwide 400,000 Textile workers' strike (1934) 1934 New England, Mid-Atlantic region and U.S. southern states: 400,000 Great Railroad Strike of 1922: 1922 nationwide 400,000 [7] 1955 Steel strike: 1955 ...