Longshore labor

The International Longshoremen’s Association and United States Maritime Alliance will meet on Monday to resume contract negotiations amid growing concern about a Maine-to-Texas dock strike to start in 2013.

The South Atlantic and Gulf Coast District of the International Longshoremen’s Association have donated $250,000 to ILA’s Hurricane Sandy Fund.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are making adjustments in their operations in an effort to reduce the economic impact that the eight-day office clerical workers strike will have on port customers.

The Retail Industry Leaders Association and National Retail Federation have urged the International Longshoremen’s Association and the United States Maritime Alliance to reach...

The lead negotiators for striking office clerical workers and waterfront employers in Los Angeles-Long Beach say they negotiated a good contract that their membership will be able to live with.

The National Retail Federation and Retail Industry Leaders Association today welcomed the news that the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will resume operations...

With the help of two federal mediators, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced an end to the eight-day strike by clerical workers that shut down 10 of the 14 container terminals in Los Angeles-Long Beach.

Striking workers from the Office Clerical Unit of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 63’s and employers at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have reached a tentative deal on a new contract, ending the strike that has crippled operations at the two ports since last week.

The federal mediator who will attempt to help striking office clerical workers reach a contract agreement with terminal operators in Los Angeles-Long Beach was expected to join the negotiations Tuesday night.

Striking office clerical workers and their employers agreed Tuesday to accept federal mediation in an attempt to end the week-long strike that has crippled the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

One hundred organizations representing national and state retailer associations, customs brokers and other intermediaries, agricultural shippers, manufacturers, logistics providers and various import and export associations urged the Obama administration to help end the week-long strike by office clerical workers that is crippling the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

Seventeen container ships have diverted to other ports because of the strike in Los Angeles-Long Beach by the Office Clerical Unit of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 63.

The National Retail Federation has reiterated its request that President Obama intervene in the OCU strike....

The International Transport Workers’ Federation has reaffirmed its support for the 600 striking clerical workers represented by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union...

There appeared to be some movement in talks between striking office clerical workers and waterfront employers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, where 10 of the 14 container terminals remained closed over the weekend.

Eight vessels have been diverted from Los Angeles-Long Beach since the office clerical workers strike began on Tuesday.

The clerical workers’ strike at 10 terminals at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach has already resulted in lost work for Southern California supply chain employees...

Negotiations between International Longshore and Warehouse Union office clerical workers and employers resumed late Thursday, but the strike that has shut down cargo-handling operations at 10 of the 14 container terminals in Los Angeles-Long Beach continued Friday.

Never mind the fiscal cliff. For container shipping, the U.S. budget impasse has been upstaged by another year-end crisis: the threat of a Maine-to-Texas dockworkers’ strike.

Grain handlers Thursday delayed the possibility of a work disruption at six grain terminals in the Pacific Northwest by extending their final contract offer to the International Longshore and Warehouse Union until 5 p.m. Dec. 8.

Striking office clerical workers continued to cripple the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach Thursday as 10 container terminals remained shut down.

A midnight Wednesday deadline for action by grain handlers and longshoremen in the Pacific Northwest came and went with no action taken.

The National Retail Federation seeks White House intervention in stalled contract talks between ILWU Local 63 and Los Angeles and Long Beach port management.

The clerical workers’ strike that shut down the APM terminal in Los Angeles Tuesday spread Wednesday afternoon to nine more terminals in the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex.

Employers in Southern California are bracing for a possible escalation of labor actions because International Longshore and Warehouse Union dockworkers refused to abide by an arbitrator’s decision late Tuesday to return to their jobs at the APM terminal in Los Angeles.

ILWU dockworkers refused to cross a picket line formed by office clerical workers on Tuesday, shutting down the large APM terminal at the Port of Los Angeles.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union is urging the employers’ organization that represents six grain terminals in the Pacific Northwest to allow more time for contract negotiations and avoid a possible employer lockout or strike that could occur as soon as Thursday.

Negotiators representing the Port of Portland and International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 28 reached a tentative contract agreement over the weekend, averting a strike by 25 security guards.

The Port of Oakland was shut down Tuesday when members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union refused to cross pickets established at all of the marine terminals by striking members of the Service Employees International Union.

The container and ro-ro carrier stopped calls to the Portuguese port on its Angola Shuttle service after weeks of social movements that complicated operations.

Port maintenance workers in Oakland represented by the Service Employees International Union plan to strike Tuesday, protesting what they charge are unfair labor practices by the port authority during contract negotiations.

The Port of Portland, Ore., is in the eye of a storm that could result in job actions from three different labor disputes shutting down some or all of its marine terminals.