East and Gulf Coast ports are also important junctions for exports of raw cotton, animal feed, soybeans and meats and imports ...

Nearly 50,000 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association will return to work after the port workers' union reached a tentative contract agreement with the United States Maritime Alliance.

Dockworkers across the East Coast and Gulf ports went on strike this week, picketing against the threat that automated ...

Importers and exporters are breathing a sigh of relief. A strike that closed 36 East Coast and Gulf Coast ports has been ...

The strike by workers at Port of Baltimore was another blow for those businesses and employees who already struggled after ...

The massive port workers’ strike is highlighting a fear held by many workers that they will be replaced by machines.

The union for over 45,000 U.S. dockworkers has agreed to suspend a three-day ports strike until January to negotiate a new ...

In a statement on Thursday, the International Longshoremen's Association said it had reached a tentative agreement on wages that would see its 35,000 members resume work at ports across the U.S. East ...

The last time East Coast and Gulf Coast workers went on strike, in 1977, the work stoppage lasted seven weeks. In 2002, a ...

Thursday evening members of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) Local 1408 were excited about the tentative ...

Striking members of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) will be back to work on Friday, the union announced Thursday evening, as it reached a tentative deal with the management group ...

A strike by dockworkers on the U.S. East Coast and Gulf Coast that disrupted much of the nation's ocean shipping this week ...