Without a new port labor deal, the International Longshoremen’s Association instructed its members to halt work after midnight Tuesday.

Unionized dockworkers at East and Gulf Coast ports are on strike, demanding higher wages and protection from automation, though experts warn automation is needed for competitiveness.

More than 800 dock workers who are members of the local International Longshoremen’s Association 1423, ILA, went on strike ...

Dockworkers and longshoremen in east coast ports are now on strike in a major labor action with real consequences for the U.S ...

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce said Biden should use the Taft-Hartley Act to avoid the work stoppage at 14 ports from Maine to ...

The Florida Ports Council said the strike will affect items such as clothing, furniture, and construction and hurricane ...

The company benefitting from the strikes has more than 6,700 customers and 2.8 percent of the world's GDP flows through its ...

Goldman Sachs said the port strikes are likely to have a relatively minor impact on U.S. gross domestic product while warning the shutdown is likely to have a much larger impact on trade volumes that ...

Port workers, led by ILA leader Harold Daggett, have stopped working indefinitely in a dispute over pay and automation.

A prolonged work stoppage of several weeks or months could rekindle inflation for some goods and trigger layoffs at manufacturers as raw materials dry up, experts said.

The last time the International Longshoremen's Association shut ports with a strike was in 1977, over fear that modernization ...

The East Coast cargo stoppage could cause price hikes and snarl up industries from produce to liquor to electronics if it drags on too long, according to observers.