A prolonged shutdown could deal a significant blow to the economy since the workers control major commercial choke points.

The strike only exacerbates some temporary port closures in places like Florida, the Carolinas and Georgia in the wake of ...

By Doyinsola Oladipo and David Shepardson NEW YORK (Reuters) -Dockworkers on the U.S. East Coast and Gulf Coast began a ...

Union dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas went on strike at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, putting coast-wide cargo in limbo.

Thousands of dockworkers at ports along the East and Gulf Coasts went on strike in search of higher pay and better job ...

Nearly 50,000 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) are on strike Tuesday against the nation’s East ...

The last ILA strike on the East Coast, in 1977, ended after 44 days. In 2002, President George W. Bush invoked the ...

The port workers union is demanding a 77% wage increase over six years along with limits on automation which it argues is ...

Longshoremen are on strike, shutting down East, Gulf ports. Economic losses of $5 billion per day can mean shortages, ...

The strike is disrupting ports that handle more than half of U.S. trade in shipping containers, with the economic bite ...

This includes longshoremen at the ports in Philadelphia. The work stoppage will affect every major U.S. cargo port from Maine ...