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Port Backlogs Could Take Months to Clear

Dozens of container ships are already playing the waiting game at idled ports

(Newser) - Three days into the dockworkers strike , at least 45 container ships are lined up outside major US ports, blocked from unloading the produce, medical supplies, auto parts, and other goods they carry. That's up from just three ships on Sunday, two days before the International Longshoremen's Association initiated...

He's Leading the Dockworkers' Strike, Doesn't Mince Words

Meet International Longshoremen's Association president Harold Daggett

(Newser) - Some 45,000 dockworkers at 36 US ports are now on strike. Their leader? Harold Daggett, whom the Wall Street Journal describes as "profane" and "pugnacious"—adjectives it backs up with Daggett's own words. The 78-year-old head of the International Longshoremen's Association kicked off the...

Dockworkers' Strike Could Welcome Back Inflation

45K workers at 36 ports demand higher wages, ban on automation; could cost economy $4B a day

(Newser) - Dockworkers at three dozen ports from Maine to Texas walked off the job early Tuesday in a strike that "could reignite inflation and cause shortages of goods if it goes on more than a few weeks," the AP reports. The affected East and Gulf Coast ports "handle...

Logjam Over? Deal Struck on Labor Dispute at Ports

It could still take weeks to get caught up, however

(Newser) - You might be able find the right size jeans this spring after all: Negotiators have reached a tentative contract covering West Coast dockworkers, likely ending a protracted labor dispute that snarled international trade at seaports handling about $1 trillion worth of cargo annually. The breakthrough came after nine months of...

East Coast Dockworkers' Strike Could Slam Economy

Union threatens action starting Sunday

(Newser) - Some 14,500 dockworkers are ready to walk out on strike Sunday, and it could shutter ports from Boston to Houston and choke the US economy big-time. The longshoremen are "in a crucial place in the flow of goods," says one professor; New York and New Jersey officials...

Dockworkers Strike Against Iraq War

West Coast ports idle for May Day in run-up to union contract talks

(Newser) - In an action their union says is a protest against the war in Iraq, dockworkers from Washington to Southern California have taken May Day off, crippling West Coast port traffic, the Los Angeles Times reports. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union, whose contract is up in 2 months, was ordered...

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