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Nearly 50,000 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) are on strike Tuesday against the nation’s East and Gulf Coast ports, choking off the flow of many of America’s ...
The Transportation Trades Department (TTD) of the AFL-CIO released a public statement prior to the strike in support of the organization and its aims, and accused the port employers of knowingly delaying contract negotiations to the last moment despite knowing the damage it would cause to American consumers and the U.S. economy, and using it to ...
"Remember, when we had the (General Motors) strike earlier in the year, they kept the strike to one plant at a time. So, GM has 20 plants, they shut down one of them. This one is broad-based, from ...
A massive dockworker strike at seaports on the U.S. East and Gulf coasts is expected to wreak havoc on global supply chains and the economy, with American consumers likely to notice shortages of ...
Purolator Inc. is a Canadian courier majority owned by Canada Post. It was founded as Trans Canada Couriers, Ltd and acquired in 1967 by Purolator , a US manufacturer of oil and air filters . [ 3 ]
Purolator International and Purolator Inc. maintain a combined fleet of more than 4,000 owned-or-contracted delivery vehicles throughout the United States and Canada. The combined fleet is the largest dedicated fleet in North America. In 2000, Purolator Courier Ltd. (now known as Purolator Inc.) announced a “Greening the Fleet” [9] [10 ...
About 40% of agricultural exports ship in containers move through the East and Gulf Coast ports, according to the National Grain and Feed Association.
Just how much American consumers and the U.S. economy will be impacted by the strike's immediate disruption of ports that handle about half of the country's trade in cargo containers depends on ...