Some 45,000 union workers walked off the job at seaports on the U.S. East and Gulf Coasts on Oct. 1, cutting off vital trade ...

Approximately 50,000 ILA union longshoremen were walking off the job at East Coast and Gulf Coast ports starting at 12:01 a.m ...

A prolonged shutdown could deal a significant blow to the economy since the workers control major commercial choke points.

The last ILA strike on the East Coast, in 1977, ended after 44 days. In 2002, President George W. Bush invoked the ...

Dockworkers began picketing at the Port of Philadelphia early Tuesday after the International Longshoremen's Association ...

Tens of thousands of longshoremen went on strike at midnight ET, shutting down major ports along the East and Gulf coasts and ...

The current lack of automation is a primary reason that U.S. ports rank near the bottom of global port efficiency ratings.

Thousands of dockworkers at more than a dozen ports along the East Coast and Gulf Coasts are poised to walk off the job on ...

Nearly 50,000 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) are on strike Tuesday against the nation’s East ...

Union dockworkers at ports across the U.S. began walking picket lines early Tuesday, snarling the movement of billions of ...

A longshoremen’s strike will rekindle worries about shortages in stores and inflation weeks from a presidential election in ...

Union dockworkers at ports across the U.S. began walking picket lines early Tuesday, threatening to halt the movement of ...