jb casino Port Workers Strike on East and Gulf Coasts
For the first time in nearly 50 years, longshoremen on the East and Gulf Coasts went on strike Tuesday, a move that will cut off most trade through some of the busiest U.S. ports and could send a chill through the economy.
Members of the International Longshoremen’s Association union, or I.L.A., which represents roughly 45,000 workers, started setting up pickets after talks failed to avert a work stoppage.
“Nothing’s going to move without us — nothing,” Harold J. Daggett, the president of the union, told picketers outside a port terminal in Elizabeth, N.J., on Tuesday.
ImageHarold J. Daggett, president of the I.L.A., spoke to members at a port in Elizabeth, N.J., early Tuesday.Credit...Eric Lee/The New York TimesBut in a sign that the union and the group representing port employers might be getting closer to a deal, Mr. Daggett told CNBC on Tuesday morning that the union was now seeking raises that added up to 61.5 percent over a six-year contract, down from the 77 percent the union had asked for earlier in negotiations.
The United States Maritime Alliance, the employers’ group, said on Tuesday that its latest offer had included raises of “nearly 50 percent” and that it looked forward “to hearing from the union about how we can return to the table and actually bargain.” In addition to wage increases, the use of new technology in the ports has been a sticking point for the union.
A map showing the major ports along the East and Gulf Coasts where the roughly 45 thousand dock workers represented by the International Longshoremen’s Association union, or I.L.A., are on strike. They are the ports of: Boston, New York and New Jersey, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Virginia, Wilmington N.C., Charleston S.C., Savannah Ga., Jacksonville Fla., Tampa, Miami, Mobile Ala., New Orleans and Houston.
Where Port Workers
Have Walked Out
The International Longshoremen’s Association union, or I.L.A., represents about 45,000 dock workers at all the major ports along the East and Gulf Coasts.
Boston
New York and
New Jersey
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Ports of:
Virginia
Wilmington, N.C.
Charleston, S.C.
Savannah, Ga.
Jacksonville, Fla.
Mobile, Ala.
Houston
New
Orleans
Tampa
Miami
Where Port Workers Have Walked Out
Boston
The International Longshoremen’s Association union, or I.L.A., represents about 45,000 dock workers at all the major ports along the East and Gulf Coasts.
New York and
New Jersey
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Ports of:
Virginia
Wilmington, N.C.
Charleston, S.C.
Savannah, Ga.
Jacksonville, Fla.
Mobile, Ala.
Houston
Tampa
New
Orleans
Miami
Source: International Longshoremen’s Association
By Karl Russell
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