More than 45,000 U.S. dockworkers represented by the International Longshoremen’s Association ratified a new six-year contract on Tuesday, formalizing a deal that offers bumper pay hikes and averts any potential disruption until 2030.
https://gcaptain.com/us-east-and-gulf-coast-dockworkers-ratify-new-six-year-contract/
Leaders from a US dockworkers’ union and the group that represents their employers are set to resume contract talks on Jan. 7 as the threat of a strike looms, according to a person familiar with the negotiations.
https://gcaptain.com/us-dockworkers-port-employers-set-to-restart-talks-next-week/
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FreightWaves explores the archives of American Shipper’s nearly 70-year-old collection of shipping and maritime publications to showcase interesting freight stories of long ago.
In this week’s edition, from the March 1977 issue of American Shipper, FreightWaves looks back at a letter from publisher David A. Howard discussing possible dockworker strikes.
Will dockworkers strike on...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/a-look-back-at-1977-will-dockworkers-strike
With the U.S. West Coast dockworker contract set to expire on Friday, lawmakers and shippers are getting increasingly nervous about the potential fallout if terminal management and labor are unable to succeed at the bargaining table.
In a letter sent on Thursday to Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), 21 congressional Democrats, led by Rep. Linda Sánchez of California, urged the two sides to “stay committed to the collective bargaining...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/lawmakers-plead-for-deal-ahead-of-dockworker-contract-deadline
The wave of dockworkers testing positive for COVID-19 up and down the U.S. coasts has prompted maritime regulators to seek help directly from the White House.
In a letter sent Thursday to President Joe Biden, Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) Commissioners Carl Bentzel and Daniel Maffei asked that in addition to prioritizing dockworkers for vaccines – which they requested from the Trump administration in December – they should be given access, in the interim, to rapid testing to minimize port...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/regulators-ask-biden-for-immediate-dockworker-vaccinations
Other strike-hit container terminal operators and supply chain players are backing a DP World Australia bid to end the “crippling” industrial action at Sydney’s Port Botany.
Work stoppages by the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) have caused an 11-day cargo backlog at the port, with a knock-on effect of container supply chain congestion spreading to Melbourne and Brisbane as vessels are diverted.
On Tuesday, DP World lodged an application with the Fair …
The post Importers ‘close to breaking...
https://theloadstar.com/importers-close-to-breaking-point-as-tension-rises-at-sydneys-port-botany/
Executive Director Mario Cordero heralded the news that the Port of Long Beach had its busiest month ever in July as “a bright spot in the midst of the devastating effects of the coronavirus on the economy.”
The port said terminal operators and dockworkers in July moved 753,081 twenty-foot equivalent units, topping a record set in June 2018 of 752,188 TEUs.
Total volume was up an impressive 21.1% in July compared to the same month in 2019.
“Supply chain workers at the Port of Long Beach...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/port-of-long-beach-marks-best-month-ever
Members of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and U.S. Maritime Alliance (USMX) from Maine to Texas conducted a “peaceful protest hour” on Tuesday in honor of George Floyd.
And on the West Coast, International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) dockworkers paused for nine minutes, symbolizing the nearly nine minutes a Minneapolis officer had a knee on Floyd’s neck.
Floyd, the man who became a symbol of the Black Lives Matter movement after his May 25 death, was laid to rest in...
https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/longshore-unions-across-nation-pay-tribute-to-george-floyd
IMO Secretary-General asked UN agencies to support the designation of seafarers, port workers as key personnel.
A longshore worker fell to his death from the deck of a containership berthed at the Port of Oakland, California.