Update: US port workers and operators reach a deal to end East Coast strike immediately on Oct. 3. Read more. Almost 25,000 dockworkers at various ports along the East and Gulf Coasts are ...

Representing the union were ILA president Harold Daggett and his son Dennis, who is executive vice president of the ILA, and ...

The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and the U.S. Maritime Alliance (USMX) announced Wednesday evening that they had reached a tentative agreement to avert a damaging strike ahead ...

While pay and benefits are key issues, the real driver is automation. That pits the ILA against the European, Chinese and other Asian shipping lines as well as the terminal operators at affected U ...

Nearly 99 percent of rank-and-file members of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) voted in favor of the new master contract agreement with the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX).

The United States Maritime Alliance (USMX), representing 40 ocean carriers and terminal operators, has successfully negotiated 10 straight master contracts without a work stoppage with the ILA.

Members of the International Longshoremen’s Association, including the 1771, 1422 and 1422A affiliates in Charleston, will return to work Oct. 4, said Charles Brave Jr., president of ILA Local 1422.

Nearly 50,000 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) are on strike Tuesday against the nation’s East and Gulf Coast ports, choking off the flow of many of America’s ...