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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.
Thousands of port workers went on strike after labor negotiations over higher pay and protections against automation reportedly stalled between the International Longshoremen's Association and the ...
The strike will likely have an almost immediate impact on supplies of perishable imports like bananas, for example. The ports affected by the strike handle 3.8 million metric tons of bananas each ...
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 strike, experts said, will affect imported goods such as seafood, electronics, pharmaceuticals, cars and auto parts, ... Port strike: What do picketing Longshoremen want?
The work stoppage was temporarily resolved when the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) agreed to a 61.5% wage increase over the next six years. The ILA and the United States Maritime ...
Longshore worker and crane operator Al Webster joined the Seattle march on May 1, 2007 to call for an end to the Iraq war. In protest of the Iraq War, the ILWU encouraged longshore workers to "shut down all West Coast ports" by walking off the job on May 1, 2008, to "make May Day a 'No Peace, No Work' holiday." On May 1, more than 10,000 ILWU ...
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.