Longshore labor

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.

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

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

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.

UPDATE 4/8/11 4:00 p.m. -- The strike was called off Friday afternoon.

When pickets from Philadelphia locals of the International Longshoremen’s Association shut down operations at container terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey last month, they said the

For several years now, the risk of labor unrest has had a seemingly intractable place in decisions by carriers and shippers over the direction of import flows: The West Coast, with a tough-talking uni

West Coast waterfront employers are bracing for a 30 percent increase in the assessments that fund longshore benefits programs, unless last-minute deals can be worked out with the union and federal re

The hazy regulatory skies that have hovered over harbor trucking for 30 years are becoming a bit clearer thanks to recent federal court rulings in California.

With its contract negotiations on hold and a civil racketeering lawsuit moving slowly, the International Longshoremen’s Association is wrestling with another problem -- a financial crisis that has roi

International Longshoremen's Association leaders from Maine to Texas gather today in Tampa, Fla., for meetings that the union's new president, John Bowers, calls the most important ones in ILA history."