CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Local dock workers are staying on the job – for now. The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) has reached a tentative deal with the U.S. Maritime Alliance, ...

Charleston, S.C. (WCIV) -- Seaports from the East Coast to the Gulf of Mexico were ready to strike as negotiations on their employment contract came to a halt. "There was no interest on either side to ...

Read full article: Dockworkers join other unions in trying to fend off automation, or minimize the impact The massive port workers’ strike is highlighting a fear held by many workers that they will be ...

The success of the International Longshoremen’s Association in winning Trump’s support for its anti-automation battle could be instructive for unions facing contract renewals during his term, ...

Striking ILA members protesting at Port Houston, October 2024. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves) There’s labor peace at Eastern Seaboard and Gulf Coast ports — for another six years. Members of the ...

The International Longshoremen's Association and port terminal operators on the East Coast and Gulf Coast reached a tentative labor deal Wednesday, averting a disruptive dockworker strike that could ...

Rank-and-file members of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) will vote Feb. 25 on what union leadership called “the hardest and most complicated contract to bargain … in the history of ...