Dockworkers strike at Port of Savannah, across eastern seaboard
SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - Thousands of dockworkers at the Port of Savannah and across the eastern seaboard walked off the job Tuesday. The strike comes after negotiators between the union for longshore workers and the group representing marine cargo carriers failed to agree on a new labor contract stoking fears of a nationwide supply chain disruption.
Georgia ports brace for impact as dockworkers’ strike threatens major disruption
A strike would shut down 36 ports that handle roughly half the nations’ cargo from ships. Lynch oversees two of the busiest in Georgia. The Port of Savannah ranks No. 4 in the U.S. for container cargo that includes retail goods ranging from consumer electronics to frozen chickens. The Port of Brunswick is America’s second-busiest for automobiles.
Union dockworkers at the Georgia Ports Authority and other East Coast and Gulf Coast ports went on strike Tuesday morning after their labor agreement expired.
"We're hopeful that they'll get it worked out," Kent Fountain, the Georgia Ports Authority's board chairman, said.
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GPA President and CEO Griff Lynch reported that the Port of Savannah recorded its second busiest August with an 18.6% ...
“We should probably expect there to be a work stoppage and we shouldn’t get surprised if there is one," Griff Lynch, CEO of the Georgia Ports Authority, told The Associated Press in an interview ...
Chants of “No contract, No work” rang out into the morning air on Bay Street in downtown Brunswick Tuesday as passing ...
Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas have started walking picket lines in a strike over wages and automation that could ...
With a potential strike at ports up and down the East Coast and along the Gulf Coast set to begin after midnight Monday, ...
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