Automation fight over in Los Angeles

The USMX states it is committed to resuming negotiations with the ILA and keeping the process private to resolve local issues and avoid disrupting cargo flow and the economy.

ILA President Harold J. Daggett warns a strike at Atlantic and Gulf Coast Ports is increasingly likely as the contract deadline approaches.

The union is trying to wind the clock back on technology as it cancels negotiations over a new labour contract.

An appeal court has denied an attempt to overturn an earlier ruling allowing the ILA to sue USMX member carriers that use the new Leatherman terminal in Charleston, where crane drivers are non-ILA labour

The ILWU Canada walked off the job on 1 July; the BCMEA says there is no point continuing to bargain over Union demands that are “outside any reasonable framework for settlement.”

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) have announced a “tentative agreement” on a new labour contract.