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The Anderson Economic Group estimated that the U.S. economy would lose $2.1 billion from a one-week strike, $1.5 billion due to the loss in value or degradation of items such as perishable goods, $400 million for transportation company losses, and $200 million in lost wages for the striking port workers.
The union representing thousands of dockworkers from Maine to Texas launched a strike over wages and the use of automation, shutting down major seaports. Dockworker strike shuts down ports in the ...
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 ...
Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas began walking picket lines early Tuesday in a strike over wages and automation that could reignite inflation and cause shortages of goods if it goes on ...
"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 ...
Union workers at ports in the East and Gulf coasts earn a base wage of $39 an hour after six years on the job compared to reports that West Coast union workers, which make $54.85 an hour.
Over 47,000 dock workers had walked off the job late Monday night, including 4,500 from New York and New Jersey. It marked the ILA’s first strike since 1977, which lasted 45 days. And it came ...
In response, the dock workers engage in a version of the "blue flu" (a reference by Garibaldi to police union members pretending to be sick to get around anti-strike regulations). Earth Senator Hidoshi orders Sinclair to end the de facto strike. The attempt to end the strike backfires. Led by an angry Delvientos, the workers openly declare a ...