In late January, Starbucks and SBWU agreed to bring in a mediator in an attempt to restart stalled contract negotiations. The ...

Sort of. The ILA and the shipping industry, represented by the USMX, reached a tentative agreement on October 4, three days after the dockworkers went on strike.

After months of negotiating and a three-day strike, clearer heads prevailed. The ILA agreed to a 15-percentage-point reduction in its previously ironclad demand for a 77% pay increase over six years.

On October 3, the membership of the International Longshoreman’s Association (ILA) suspended its strike and agreed to extend its current contract for another 90 days. The union and the U.S.

Daggett bragged that a strike would “shut down the whole world.” A shutdown of the 36 ports that joined the ILA’s picket line would cost the economy between $3.8 billion and $4.5 billion per ...

That report laid out how the ILA’s iron grip helps some workers at the expense of countless other blue-collar applicants by refusing to hire residents near the ports — and reignited concerns ...

The strike by 47,000 International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) members, which shut down all 36 East and Gulf Coast ports, has ended after an agreement on wages. However, the most important ...

The ports in New York, Baltimore, and Houston— three of the largest of the 36 ports that could have been shut down by the ILA strike—are ranked no higher than 300th place (out of 348 in total ...

Labor peace is now restored for 36 United States-based East and Gulf Coast ports following a brief but heightened period of uncertainty. The ports had been shut down for the better part of three days ...

The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) union and the U.S. Maritime Alliance (USMX), an association of companies that operate East and Gulf Coast ports, reached a tentative agreement ...

After weeks of negotiation, the ILA secured a 62% wage increase over six years for its 47,000 members over this resolution; ending labor unrest that had brought critical U.S. shipping ports to a ...