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Tobias Burns. Updated. Ships are piling up in some West Coast ports, and commercial shipping prices are spiking amid a labor fight between port operators and workers, threatening to trigger a new ...
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Website. www .ilwu .org. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union ( ILWU) is a labor union which primarily represents dock workers on the West Coast of the United States, Hawaii, and in British Columbia, Canada; on the East Coast, the dominant union is the International Longshoremen's Association. The union was established in 1937 after ...
April 7, 2023 at 2:07 PM. A tugboat is the only thing moving in an idle Port of Los Angeles Harbor in San Pedro on Friday. The twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach were closed beginning ...
The 1934 West Coast waterfront strike (also known as the 1934 West Coast longshoremen's strike, as well as a number of variations on these names) lasted 83 days, and began on May 9, 1934, when longshoremen in every US West Coast port walked out. Organized by the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), the strike peaked with the death of ...
50 feet (15 m) 228 feet (69 m) Port of Boston. 47 feet (14 m) Unlimited. Port of Portland (Maine) 32 feet (9.8 m) [2] Dredging of east coast ports are under way [3] because of the New Panama Canal expansion and the expectation of larger container ships . The Jasper Ocean Terminal is a planned container terminal to be built on the Savannah River ...
It looked like business as usual at the port of Seattle and ports across the West Coast on Monday after alleged disruptions impacted work over the weekend. The Pacific Maritime Association ,or PMA ...
In 2012, members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union were locked out by the employers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in the U.S. state of California. This was due to issues over labor contract negotiations between port employers and the ILWU's Local 63 Office and Clerical Unit (OCU), which represents about 800 ...