Longshore labor

U.S.-flag merchant ships spend on average 2.7 times more to operate their vessels than their foreign competitors, largely because labor and benefits cost American operators nearly twice as much, accor

A reputed New Jersey mobster and an International Longshoremen’s Association checker pleaded guilty to state charges involving waterfront loan sharking at the Port of New York and New Jersey.

Marine terminal operators have to pay about $1,300 in weekly compensation to hurt workers, making dock safety promotion a smart fiscal move as well as a good humanitarian decision, according to an ind

International Longshore and Warehouse Union locals in the Pacific Northwest voted to ratify a grain-handlers contract agreement that was tentatively agreed to on Sept.

The International Longshoremen’s Association relocated its headquarters to North Bergen, N.J., from the union’s longtime home in lower Manhattan.

Grain exporter EGT and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union continue to cry out for clarity over the union’s contention that EGT is bound by a working agreement with Washington’

The judge handling the volatile jurisdictional dispute at a grain terminal in Washington provided little clarification of the situation by suggesting a labor arbitrator should determine the legality o

A tentative agreement between nearly 500 Canadian Auto Workers and Canada’s St.

International Longshore and Warehouse Union President Bob McEllrath surrendered to law enforcement officials on Monday to face misdemeanour charges relating to blocking a train from entering a grain e

Grain terminal operator EGT in Longview, Wash., received a 110-car rail shipment of wheat, moving the site closer to opening in the face of a massive labor protest.

Since it’s founding in 1934, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union has prided itself in being a militant union, but its militancy was usually limited to walking off the job to take a p

In a show of solidarity and apparent disdain over police actions at rough protest last week, the entire membership of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 21 turned themselves in Friday i

The 250-member Panama Canal Pilots Union will affiliate with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, extending the reach of the powerful West Coast dockworkers’ union to Panama three ye

A federal court judge in Tacoma Thursday found the International Longshore and Warehouse Union in contempt of court for vandalizing the new EGT grain export terminal in Longview, Wash., during the uni

Workers at India’s Port of Chennai launched a wildcat strike Thursday morning to protest the death of a colleague in a dockside accident, local shipping circles said.

A former officer of an International Longshoremen’s Association Local 1233 in Newark, N.J., was charged with stealing more than $100,000 in union funds.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union reached a tentative agreement late Wednesday with grain elevator operators in the Pacific Northwest, a pact that would isolate grain handler EGT in its

An International Longshore and Warehouse Union member was arrested on felony charges stemming from an ILWU protest at a West Coast grain terminal after a witness identified him from an obscenity-laden

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The International Longshore and Warehouse Union vowed to maintain its pickets at a newly built grain terminal in Longview, Wash., despite a temporary restraining order issued by a federal judge in Tac

Former Rear Adm. Wendi Carpenter on Thursday became the first female president of State University of New York Maritime College, the country’s largest and oldest maritime college.

A longshoreman fell to his death in a breakbulk ship Saturday in the second fatal accident in eight days on the Philadelphia waterfront.

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Two longshore workers were killed in work accidents at Packer Avenue Marine Terminal in Philadelphia and Maher Terminals in Port Newark, N.J.

As Harold Daggett basked in the applause of union delegates after his election as International Longshoremen’s Association president, loudspeakers came alive with the Sam Cooke classic “A

The Longshore Workers Coalition, the intra-union group that has criticized International Longshoremen’s Association leadership, was relatively quiet during last month’s ILA convention in H

A two-month longshoremen’s strike in 1977 left Harold Daggett so strapped he qualified for food stamps, but Daggett said he couldn’t tap family members for a loan “because they were

The next union contract for East and Gulf Coast dockworkers will be negotiated amid economic uncertainty, the prospect of new business from a wider Panama Canal and heightened competition from West Co

Harold Daggett took over as president of the International Longshoremen’s Association on Thursday with a vow to fight automation, increase organizing and research activities, aggressively enforc

The president of the West Coast longshore union pledged cooperation with the International Longshoremen’s Association and criticized other unions he said were poaching dockworker jobs.

The International Longshoremen’s Association and management should consider separate contracts for short-sea shipping and proprietary cargo such as bananas, management’s chief negotiator t

Management officials urged the International Longshoremen’s Association to work with employers to compete with West Coast ports and attract the investment Atlantic and Gulf ports need to benefit

Dennis Daggett, son of International Longshoremen’s Association president-in-waiting Harold Daggett, is the new president of the ILA’s Atlantic Coast District, which covers ports from Main

Trailer Bridge named Scott W. Fernandez as chief commercial officer today in place of the departing Adam E. Gawrysh Jr., who is leaving the company May 27.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union has a reputation of militancy, but a Southern California union official said recent history shows the ILWU is a collaborative partner of the West Coast

Canadian longshoremen ratified a watershed contract that should guarantee labor peace at the country’s Pacific Coast ports for eight years.

Two New York-New Jersey dockworkers have been sentenced after pleading guilty to submitting fraudulent time sheets for hours they didn’t work.

Labor activists in Northern California will hold a rally Monday in front of the Pacific Maritime Association headquarters in San Francisco to protest a court action earlier this month that was initiat

Negotiators for the British Columbia Maritime Employers Association and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada reached a tentative collective bargaining agreement covering the ports on

The International Longshoremen's Association called off a threatened strike at the Port of New York and New Jersey.