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The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) is a labor union which primarily represents dock workers on the West Coast of the United States, Hawaii, and in British Columbia, Canada; on the East Coast, the dominant union is the International Longshoremen's Association.
The International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) is a North American labor union representing longshore workers along the East Coast of the United States and Canada, the Gulf Coast, the Great Lakes, Puerto Rico, and inland waterways; on the West Coast, the dominant union is the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. The ILA has ...
Under the tentative new agreement, workers will earn a 61.5% raise over six years. That means the highest paid workers would make $63 per hour in the final year of the contract — up from $39.
The union representing 45,000 striking U.S. dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports reached a deal Thursday to suspend a three-day strike until Jan. 15 to provide time to negotiate a new contract.
The union representing thousands of dockworkers from Maine to Texas launched a strike over wages and the use of automation, shutting down major seaports. Dockworker strike shuts down ports in the ...
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters issued a statement expressing solidarity towards striking port workers and the ILA, while also warning that "[t]he U.S. government should stay the f**k out of this fight[sic] and allow union workers to withhold their labor for the wages and benefits they have earned.". [19]
With a strike deadline looming, the group representing East and Gulf Coast ports is asking a federal agency to make the Longshoremen's union come to the bargaining table to negotiate a new contract.
This is the union’s first strike in 47 years, but Daggett participated in the previous strike as a rank-and-file dock worker. He had joined the union a decade earlier in 1967 after serving in ...