Port Strike Averted with Tentative Deal
Negotiators for the International Longshoremen’s Association and United States Maritime Alliance have agreed to terms of a new six-year master contract less than a week before the union’s strike deadline would have hit East Coast and Gulf ports. The new deal requires ratification by 85,000 ILA workers and USMX’s ocean carriers and terminal operators, but the two parties agreed to keep working under the current contract until ... Log in to view full article.
