Longshore labor

The dispute, which has arisen annually during the past several years, comes as shippers, carriers, and ports prepare for the 2018 Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Seaway shipping season, which runs from late March through the end of the year.

Gothenburg's long-running labor dispute is having a devastating effect on the port, slashing its volume and eroding its competitiveness.

ILA and USMX officials had hoped to agree on a contract extension that would reassure the hundreds of shippers who will attend the JOC’s annual Trans-Pacific Maritime (TPM) conference March 4-7 in Long Beach, California.

The legislation is the latest event in the ongoing, bitter dispute between the commission and the New York Shipping Association and the International Longshoremen’s Association.

A closer look at contract extension talks for the US East and Gulf coasts suggests less cause for alarm.

The union is prepared to avoid bargaining until the current coastwide contract expires on Sept. 30, 2018.

New Jersey legislators are pushing ahead with a bill that would strip the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor of its policing responsibility in the Port of New York and New Jersey.

Hopes are are high among trade participants; shippers would be delighted if a long-term deal is struck, as it would support supply-chain certainty.

Local shipping sources in JNPT told JOC.com that some vessels have been stranded at berth or at anchorage.

Success at organizing superintendents at APL and Pasha terminals has International Longshore and Warehouse Union looking forward to another victory.

False logs are an "epidemic," and shippers are vulnerable, speakers tell the JOC Inland Distribution Conference. The latest federal data back them up.

Now that a West Coast longshore labor contract extension is in place through mid-2022, shippers are anxious for a similar deal to ensure continued labor peace on the East and Gulf coasts.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union-International Container Terminal Services, Inc. saga began in 2012.

International Longshoremen’s Association and United States Maritime Alliance officials have been exploring a long-term extension for more than two years.

A jury convicted a general foreman and member of the International Longshoremen’s Association at the Port of New York and New Jersey of fraudulently collecting a salary of nearly $500,000 while infrequently going to work.

Last summer’s contract extension by the ILWU and the PMA increased pressure for an agreement on the East and Gulf coasts.

BCOs will experience new dynamics that could affect cargo-handling at terminals where supervisors are organized by the ILWU.

Cargo-handling resumed and truck gates reopened at one of the largest container terminals in Southern California at the height of the peak-shipping season.

Management and labor throughout the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex consider these developments to be of extreme importance because the ILWU is negotiating the first-ever contract for supervisors.

ILWU Local 63 in Southern California shuts down APL terminal as it negotiates contract for newly organized superintendents.

Riley to seek expanded jurisdiction at new terminal.

No formal proposals yet, but Daggett plans to convene ILA delegates.

A top International Longshoremen's Association official resigned Friday from a council aimed at boosting Port of New York and New Jersey efficiency, saying the ILA’s contribution was ignored at a Thursday ceremony to mark the biggest ship ever to stop at the port.

Oakland terminals get full complement of workers Saturday after ILWU Local 10 counter-demonstration is called off

Six container ships, an auto carrier, and a cruise ship are due to be worked on Saturday.

“Things have been streamlined and the private terminal is working normally.”

ILWU Local 10 will protest at conservative group's rally Saturday, but cargo-handling at Port of Oakland is expected to proceed as usual.

A federal court has dismissed a lawsuit by ILA officials who challenged their subpoenas from the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor after a Jan. 29, 2016 wildcat strike at the Port of New York and New Jersey.

Indian dockworker labor unions and the chief labor commissioner reached a tentative last-minute agreement Thursday, averting an Aug. 18 strike.

Union representatives and officials from the chief labor commissioner have had several rounds of negotiations.

Will the vote be remembered as a narrow, ultimately inconsequential act, or a turning point premised on a message to the union leadership that something needs to change?

Christie-signed legislation still requires New York's concurrence.

ILWU three-year contract extension is now official

No date has been set for the start of bargaining on a coastwide ILA contract.

The subject of a contract extension was first raised in March 2015 at the JOC’s annual TPM Conference.

The indictment charged Moe was paid even during trips to Aruba and Florida and while engaging in other off-terminal activities.

The unions have accepted a 10 percent cut in wages and early retirement for its older members.

“ILA Dockers say to Maersk: ‘YOU CAN’T HACK MAN POWER!’”

“We are in a critical situation.”

ILWU expected to vote on contract extension after local informational meetings are completed.