Longshore labor

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union issued a statement Tuesday alerting the maritime industry that West Coast dockworkers fully support the International Longshoremen’s Association i

The number of active for-hire motor carriers in the U.S. rose 7.5 percent from February 2011 through this month, an increase of more than 11,500 trucking companies.

Ask a trucking CEO why it’s so hard to hire drivers, and extended unemployment benefits will likely be the first thing past his lips.

After a mighty bluster in the run-up to negotiations for a new contract at East and Gulf Coast ports, the tone and rhetoric from the nation’s second-largest longshore union and its management co

The West Coast arbitrator who adjudicates labor disputes involving the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and waterfront employers on Wednesday ruled dockworkers in Los Angeles-Long Beach wou

When the president of the West Coast dockworkers’ union pledged full support to the International Longshoremen’s Association in this year’s contract negotiations, many shippers and c

Stories of mob connections, excess staffing and $400,000-a-year dockworker pay at the New York-New Jersey port got a fresh airing from the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor just days before the

The International Longshoremen’s Association and its East and Gulf coast employers exchanged initial contract propo

Crowley Maritime Corp.’s liner services division and the Teamsters union have agreed on a five-year contract for workers at the company’s marine terminal in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Representatives of the International Longshoremen’s Association and its East and Gulf Coast employers are meeting in Tampa this week to exchange initial proposals for a contract to replace the o

A protest by local political parties and trade unions shut down India’s Port of Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva), forcing ocean carriers to skip calls at the

Inefficient work and pay practices criticized by the Waterfront Commission should be addressed “at the bargaining table – not publicly in the political world and surely not in the press,&r

Hiring and work practices at the Port of New York and New Jersey breed inefficiency, favor “a privileged few,” and invite organized-crime influence, the Waterfront Commission of New York H

A multimillion-dollar damage lawsuit against the International Longshoremen’s Association for an illegal work stoppage at the Port of New York and New Jersey has been dismissed and the dispute s

When International Longshoremen’s Association President Harold Daggett warned some 1,600 Trans-Pacific Maritime Conference attendees this month that labor negotiations could produce a strike thi

James Capo has been working for months to calm shippers’ concerns about the impending East and Gulf Coast longshore labor negotiations.

West Coast ports could see a diversion of cargo from East and Gulf Coast ports this year if contract talks between waterfront employers and the International Longshoremen’s Association become he

Operations at the Port of Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva) were severely disrupted Tuesday after dock workers at India’s largest container gateway joined a 24-hour nationwide general strike.

A dockworker was killed Wednesday night at the Port Newark Container Terminal in New Jersey after she was pinned between two containers.

Shippers and carriers view this year’s East and Gulf Coast longshore labor negotiations with a sense of trepidation and an eye on the calendar.

An International Longshoremen’s Association local headed by one of ILA President Harold Daggett’s sons has bombarded four New Jersey container terminals with grievances alleging more than

A federal appeals court affirmed a lower court’s decision that the New York Shipping Association acted prematurely in challenging a port crime watchdog agency’s plan for independent monito

International Longshoremen’s Association President Harold Daggett said the ILA will enter this year’s contract negotiations seeking guaranteed minimum staffing and protection against job c

EGT recognized the Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 21 as the bargaining representative for workers at the new grain export terminal in Longview, Wash., signalling the wind-down of one of the most

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The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s new executive director said the agency will use its leases as a lever to end “deliberate discrimination” in hiring on the bistate port

An International Longshoremen’s Association demonstration outside a New Jersey container terminal may be a hint of things to come as the ILA gears up for bargaining on a new contract covering At

If you want to get a rise out of International Longshoremen’s Association President Harold Daggett, ask him about the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor.

Three additional defendants and dozens of counts were added to a federal racketeering indictment accusing mob figures and ex-International Longshoremen’s Association officials of extorting New Y

International Longshoremen’s Association Local 1964 and Yang Ming (America) have agreed on a three-year contract covering the carrier’s two New Jersey-based vessel stowage planners.

A pier superintendent at Maher Terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey was arrested on a federal complaint accusing him of running an illegal bookmaking business.

James Devine says he isn’t trying to pick a fight with the International Longshoremen’s Association, but he may face one over plans to introduce labor-saving technology at an expanded Glob

Every three years, office clerical workers in Southern California sit at the bargaining table with waterfront employers and launch what may be the West Coast’s most contentious round of contract

A second major labor group announced its opposition Friday to plans by the Occupy movement to shut down the port on Monday.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union office clerical workers who are picketing four terminals in Los An

International Longshore and Warehouse Union office clerical workers in Los Angeles-Long Beach broke off contract talks and set up picket lines at four container terminals after 18 months of negotiatio

An International Longshoremen’s Association local has withdrawn its unfair-labor-practice charge against Ya

The International Longshoremen’s Association and the New York Shipping Association said they will give hiring preference to Iraq and Afghanistan veterans for jobs that open up in the Port of New

The Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners is expected to confirm the nomination of J. Christopher Lytle as executive director at the next commission meeting on Nov. 14.

An International Longshoremen’s Association local has accused Yang Ming (America) of engaging in an unfair labor practice by refusing to negotiate a contract for the Taiwanese carrier’s tw