Port Strike Updates
The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) reached a tentative agreement to extend the Master Contract until January 15, 2025. Despite the reopening of the ports, it will likely take a couple of weeks to get through the backlog caused by the strike. Below are some updates, as of October 7.
The ILA issued a memo to its members outlining the tentative agreement reached last week with USMX on wages. The memo also provided some additional insight into ILA’s position on other key issues to be negotiated including automation, jurisdiction expansion, and healthcare and container royalties. The memo notes that the longshoremen will get retroactive pay for the strike and ILA plans to meet with USMX as soon as possible. Link here.
Articles of Interest
- U.S. ports start 100-day countdown clock to new strike, and automation is poised to be the dealbreaker, CNBC (10/4)
- How Biden helped end a port strike that threatened Democrats in November, Washington Post (10/4)
- Ports Rush to Reopen After First Major Strike in Decades Is Suspended, NYTimes (10/4)
- US East, Gulf coast ports confident of smooth post-strike reopening, JOC (10/4)
- Here are all the winners in the port strike deal, CNN (10/5)
- Dockworkers union asserts ‘absolute, airtight’ anti-automation stance, Washington Post (10/5)
- How long will it take the supply chain to normalize after dockworkers strike?, Fox Business (10/5)
- Automation takes center stage in port negotiations, The Hill (10/6)
