Unionized dockworkers resumed labor talks this week with employers at ports across the nation as the deadline for a new contract looms two months away, The Wall Street Journal reports. Still divided ...
The breakdown in US port negotiations comes after Canada’s labour minister, Steven MacKinnon, used his power to end strikes ...
Negotiations between dockworkers and employers broke down following disagreements over automation.
Dockworkers are set to meet with their employers in New Jersey, resuming negotiations on the key issue of automation that ...
Joe Biden had mapped out a game plan for his final months as president. Then a series of cascading crises intruded.
representing 45,000 dockworkers, shut down ports from Maine to Texas. The union strike was the largest in nearly 50 years. Had it gone on for weeks instead of days, it would have led to higher prices ...
Worker unrest over contract disputes at Canada’s largest ports in Montreal and British Columbia threatens to spill over into ...
MONTREAL - Dockworkers at the Port of Montreal started a new strike Thursday morning, forcing the indefinite shutdown of two container terminals at the country’s second biggest port. The Port of ...
However, the latter issue was largely resolved when both sides agreed to give dockworkers a 62% pay increase ... shutting down 36 ports from Maine to Texas. Over 47,000 dock workers walked off ...
So the dockworkers’ strike is off for now ... untouched the matter of automation “at 36 ports stretching from Maine to Texas,” reports AP. So what about that? Well, WSWS argues that this ...
Some 45,000 dockworkers from Maine to Texas were on strike for just two days, from Oct 1 to 3, but by bringing work to a standstill on the US East Coast and Gulf Coast ports it sent out a clear ...
DETROIT (AP) — Some 45,000 dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports ... and the automation of tasks at 36 ports stretching from Maine to Texas. The strike came at the peak of the holiday season ...