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A looming strike also puts President Biden and his chosen successor, Vice President Kamala Harris, in a political bind: If they invoke the anti-union statute forcing workers back on the job, they ...
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]
California port operations could be affected if the striking longshore workers union in the East set up pickets here, as it did in San Francisco during the strike in 1977.
Roughly 25,000 dockworkers went on strike this week at ports along the East and Gulf Coasts of the U.S. to rally for higher pay and stronger guardrails around their jobs being automated out of ...
The massive port workers' strike that has shut down all the major dockyards on the Eastern seaboard of the U.S. and the Gulf coast is highlighting a fear held by many workers: Eventually, we will ...
Vice President Harris voiced her support Wednesday for striking port workers, while also bashing her rival former President Trump, after tens of thousands of longshoremen at ports along the East ...
1935 Gulf Coast longshoremen's strike; 1936 Gulf Coast maritime workers' strike; 1936 Pacific Coast maritime workers' strike; 1971 ILWU strike; 1983 Pacific Coast Metal Trades Union strike; 1985–1986 New Bedford fishermen's strike; 2012 Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach strike; 2019 Alaska ferry workers' strike; 2024 United States port strike
The strike had commenced on Tuesday as 45,000 dockworkers sought much higher pay to compensate for their high-risk jobs. Fears of automation and job protection were also front-and-center issues.