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The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey lost between $250-300 million dollars a day during the strike by members of the International Longshoremen’s Association, said Bethann Rooney, the ...
On the evening of September 30, the eve of the strike, the U.S. Maritime Alliance proposed a 50% pay raise and a commitment to limited incorporation of automation, but not a complete ban, as a means to resume negotiations. The alliance also claimed that they had tripled port employer contributions to worker healthcare and retirement benefits.
Thousands of East and Gulf Coast dockworkers went on strike demanding higher pay. ... That means the highest paid workers would make $63 per hour in the final year of the contract — up from $39 ...
Top-scale port workers now earn a base pay of $39 an hour, or just over $81,000 a year. But with overtime and other benefits, some can make in excess of $200,000 annually.
They are now charging $30,000 for a full container, a whopping increase from $6,000 per container just a few weeks ago. In just a short time, they went from 6,000 to 18,000, then 24,000, and now ...
"A port strike could cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars a day, hurting American businesses, workers and consumers across the country," Business Roundtable CEO Joshua Bolten said in a ...
The ILA members' strike, which consisted of over 47,000 port workers across the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, including 4,500 from New York and New Jersey, began on Tuesday, Oct. 1, as the union ...
The ports affected by the strike handle 3.8 million metric tons of bananas each year, or 75% of the nation’s supply, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation.