Nearly 50,000 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) are on strike Tuesday against the nation’s East and Gulf Coast ports. •The strike, which began at midnight ...

This is the first coast-wide ILA strike since 1977. The ILA said in September they were "ready to strike for wages that are commensurate with the billion-dollar profits earned by the Ocean Carriers." ...

The union behind the port strike halting shipments from Maine to Texas has forged a path distinct from other big unions that have been in the spotlight lately. The International Longshoremen’s ...

ILA members started to set up picket lines at shipping ports up and down the Atlantic and Gulf coasts as of 12:01 a.m. Tuesday in the union's first coastwide strike in nearly 50 years. MORE ...

Philadelphia ILA President Boise Butler said. "Now we want them to pay back. They're going to pay back," Butler said. Calls are growing among anti-strike figureheads for Biden to invoke the 1947 ...

The ILA and the maritime alliance came to a tentative agreement after a three-day strike in early October, sending 45,000 dockworkers in East and Gulf Coast ports back to work until Jan. 15.

"We're putting people out of work." Jack DaCosta Jr., an ILA strike captain and a general foreman at Columbia Container Services at the port, agreed. "The net revenues of these companies have ...

As another strike at U.S. East Coast and Gulf Coast ports ... the contract talks between the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) and the U.S. Maritime Alliance (USMX) broke down in ...