The threat of a strike at East and Gulf Coast ports ended when the dockworkers union and the shipping companies reached a tentative contract deal that appears to allow for some use of automation.
A new six-year contract sets a 62% pay increase along with tougher standards for adding robotics to the docks.
Dockworkers from Boston to Houston were just a week away from another strike, then came word of a tentative deal on a new contract. The dockworkers' union and the shipping companies appear to have ...
A longshoremen's strike in October lasted 72 hours, shutting down 36 ports from Maine to Texas. More than 47,000 dockworkers ...
A deal would mark the end of a contentious fight between the dockworker union and their employers over how certain technology ...
The head of the dockworkers union praised President-elect ... that they had reached a tentative agreement to avert a damaging strike ahead of next week’s deadline. “He’s a hero to our ...
Unionized dockworkers secured a big pay raise and ... a tentative labor deal reached with employers about a week before a strike deadline. The agreement, reached Wednesday evening, raises ...
The International Longshoremen's Association and United States Maritime Alliance reached a tentative deal on Wednesday, averting a looming strike set for later this month.