Longshore labor

Local political and trade union leaders notified the APM Terminals management in India’s Port of Nhava Sheva (Jawaharlal Nehru) of their decision to strike June 28, an action that could shut dow

The International Longshoremen’s Association and United States Maritime Alliance are scheduled to resume negotiations when the ILA’s wage scale committee meets on June 27-29 in Delray Beac

The words “technology” and “automation” are troubling to longshoremen because they signal a loss of job opportunities.

Negotiations on a new International Longshoremen’s Association contract for East and Gulf Coast dockworkers have taken a negative turn, confronting shippers with tough choices in the weeks ahead

Delegates to the 35th convention of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union voted unanimously to affiliate with the Panama Canal Pilots Union.

A suspended pier superintendent at Maher Terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey pleaded guilty to a federal charge of illegal bookmaking using Internet sites and 1-800 telephone numbers.

A stevedoring company that plans to use workers from the Operating Engineers union to load military ammunition at Charleston said it is not competing for work currently done by International Longshore

The nation’s two dock worker unions may take the lead in forming a maritime labor alliance to protect their jurisdiction against encroachment by non-maritime unions or non-union employers.

The International Longshoremen’s Association may have to take on the U.S. Marines to protect its jurisdiction in the Southeast.

Waterfront employers’ refusal to guarantee jobs in exchange for automation at East and Gulf Coast ports remains a serious “hurdle” to negotiation of a new International Longshoremen&

International Longshoremen’s Association President Harold Daggett defended the ILA’s negotiating positions and urged management to resume negotiations when the union’s wage scale com

Marine terminal operators in Los Angeles and Long Beach reported Friday that cargo-handling was operating normally despite a contract dispute between office clerical workers and employers.

Trucking employment increased by about 7,300 jobs in May, a 3.4 percent increase from a year ago, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics da

Contract negotiations between office clerical workers and waterfront employers in Southern California broke off after only two days of talks, opening up at least a theoretical possibility of picketing

The top negotiator for East and Gulf Coast waterfront management said International Longshoremen’s Association President Harold Daggett “appears to be less-than-committed to engaging in me

International Longshoremen’s Association President Harold Daggett said long delays at the Port of New York and New Jersey before the Memorial Day holiday weekend were not the result of an intent

International Longshoremen’s Association President Harold Daggett said United States Maritime Alliance has been unwilling to agree to ILA contract demands for job guarantees in exchange for incr

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said it has given the port’s largest auto proc

Two years after federal regulators launched the Compliance, Safety and Accountability initiative, the program is still incomplete, lacking a long-promised and crucial component: a new motor carrier sa

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union issued a statement Tuesday alerting the maritime industry that West Coast dockworkers fully support the International Longshoremen’s Association i

The number of active for-hire motor carriers in the U.S. rose 7.5 percent from February 2011 through this month, an increase of more than 11,500 trucking companies.

Ask a trucking CEO why it’s so hard to hire drivers, and extended unemployment benefits will likely be the first thing past his lips.

After a mighty bluster in the run-up to negotiations for a new contract at East and Gulf Coast ports, the tone and rhetoric from the nation’s second-largest longshore union and its management co

The West Coast arbitrator who adjudicates labor disputes involving the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and waterfront employers on Wednesday ruled dockworkers in Los Angeles-Long Beach wou

When the president of the West Coast dockworkers’ union pledged full support to the International Longshoremen’s Association in this year’s contract negotiations, many shippers and c

Stories of mob connections, excess staffing and $400,000-a-year dockworker pay at the New York-New Jersey port got a fresh airing from the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor just days before the

The International Longshoremen’s Association and its East and Gulf coast employers exchanged initial contract propo

Crowley Maritime Corp.’s liner services division and the Teamsters union have agreed on a five-year contract for workers at the company’s marine terminal in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Representatives of the International Longshoremen’s Association and its East and Gulf Coast employers are meeting in Tampa this week to exchange initial proposals for a contract to replace the o

A protest by local political parties and trade unions shut down India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva), forcing ocean carriers to skip calls at the

Inefficient work and pay practices criticized by the Waterfront Commission should be addressed “at the bargaining table – not publicly in the political world and surely not in the press,&r

Hiring and work practices at the Port of New York and New Jersey breed inefficiency, favor “a privileged few,” and invite organized-crime influence, the Waterfront Commission of New York H

A multimillion-dollar damage lawsuit against the International Longshoremen’s Association for an illegal work stoppage at the Port of New York and New Jersey has been dismissed and the dispute s

When International Longshoremen’s Association President Harold Daggett warned some 1,600 Trans-Pacific Maritime Conference attendees this month that labor negotiations could produce a strike thi

James Capo has been working for months to calm shippers’ concerns about the impending East and Gulf Coast longshore labor negotiations.

West Coast ports could see a diversion of cargo from East and Gulf Coast ports this year if contract talks between waterfront employers and the International Longshoremen’s Association become he

Operations at the Port of Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva) were severely disrupted Tuesday after dock workers at India’s largest container gateway joined a 24-hour nationwide general strike.

A dockworker was killed Wednesday night at the Port Newark Container Terminal in New Jersey after she was pinned between two containers.

Shippers and carriers view this year’s East and Gulf Coast longshore labor negotiations with a sense of trepidation and an eye on the calendar.

An International Longshoremen’s Association local headed by one of ILA President Harold Daggett’s sons has bombarded four New Jersey container terminals with grievances alleging more than