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September 20, 2024 at 1:13 PM. Shipping containers at the Port of Houston Authority on Thursday in Harris County, Texas. A major strike is on the horizon for thousands of maritime workers, posing ...
September 20, 2024 at 6:27 PM. JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images. Authorities are gearing up as a threatened strike by dockworkers at ports along the East Coast and Gulf Coast draws closer. The ...
U.S. President Joe Biden does not intend to invoke a federal law to prevent a port strike on the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico if dockworkers fail to secure a new labor contract by an Oct. 1 ...
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 the ...
On June 1, 1916, workers in all twelve West Coast ports went on strike to demand higher wages and an end to the open-shop system. [1] [3] [5] [2] [6] A brief truce was established on June 9 but quickly collapsed after striking workers were killed in San Francisco and Seattle. The strike became more violent, with battles between strikers and ...
The port is the west coast homeport of the U.S. Navy Seabees and supports the training and mobilization requirements for more than 2,600 active-duty personnel. The port facility is located on the vast agricultural Oxnard Plain, about 60 miles (97 km) northwest of Los Angeles, on the Southern California coast.
The union's goal was to secure employment, wages, and benefits in the face of increased mechanization, shrinking workforce, and the slowing economic climate of the early 1970s. The strike shut down all 56 West coast ports, including those in Canada, and lasted 130 days, the longest strike in the ILWU's history. [1]
Still, if the US Maritime Alliance and the International Longshoremen’s Association unions on the East and Gulf coasts are unable to reach an agreement on a new or extended contract, a port ...