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Last week cargo giants Maersk (MAERSK-A.CO, MAERSK-B.CO) and German shipment company Hapag-Lloyd said they would pause voyages through the region until further notice.Goldman Sachs analysts ...
Representation of a oil derrick. The Texas oil boom, sometimes called the gusher age, was a period of dramatic change and economic growth in the U.S. state of Texas during the early 20th century that began with the discovery of a large petroleum reserve near Beaumont, Texas.
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
Illinois, Mississippi and Texas: 30,000 2019 Los Angeles Unified School District teachers' strike: 2019 Los Angeles County, California: 30,000 1928 New Bedford textile strike: 1928 New Bedford, Massachusetts: 30,000 1935 Pacific Northwest lumber strike: 1935 Pacific Northwest: 30,000 [82] 1912 Lawrence textile strike or "Bread and Roses" strike ...
The United States Maritime Alliance (USMX), the umbrella group representing the managers of the ports, sought to avert a strike at the last minute late on Monday night – offering a 50% wage hike ...
The major oil-producing regions of the U.S.—Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Colorado, Wyoming, and Alaska—benefited greatly from the price inflation of the 1970s as did the U.S. oil industry in general. Oil prices generally increased throughout the decade; between 1978 and 1980 the price of West Texas Intermediate crude oil increased 250 ...
The strike affecting 36 ports is the first by the union since 1977. Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas began walking picket lines early Tuesday in a strike over wages and automation that ...
May 5 – A leak occurred in a relief line, at a Keystone Pipeline Terminal in Beaumont, Texas. About 18,500 gallons of crude oil were spilled. The cause seemed to be internal corrosion. [5] July 28 – A gas line explosion and fire occurred in Martin County, Texas, which injured four workers. A ditching truck hit an existing high-pressure gas ...