Port workers from the International Longshoremen’s Association participate in a strike at the Virginia International Gateway in Portsmouth Oct. 1, 2024. A compromise was reached Oct. 3 between the International Longshoremen’s Association and the U.S. Maritime Alliance and under a tentative agreement on wages — a 61.5 percent increase over six years — workers returned to the ports until Jan. 15, 2025. (OSV News photo/Jose Luis Gonzalez, Reuters) Some labor strikes can be comfortably ignored by many Americans.
But when an estimated 45,000 dockworkers at 36 East and Gulf Coast ports walked off the job at 12:01 a.m. ET on […]
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