February 28, 2025 — Workers at 36 U.S. ports have ratified a new contract after months of negotiations, ensuring work will continue at some of the country’s busiest ports for the next six years.
According to Reuters, 99 percent of the rank and file voters supported the ratification.
January 10, 2025 — The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) came to a tentative agreement in their ongoing contract dispute before their 15 January strike deadline.
Though this came as a relief to many, experts are still forecasting that the nation’s major ports are still going to see surges in cargo volume and costs through January.
January 9, 2025 — The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) – whose workers staff U.S. container ports from Maine to Florida – has reached a tentative agreement with managers to keep its members on the job, avoiding a strike that was due to resume on 16 January.
Contract details are being kept private until it is ratified by rank-and-file ILA members, but a joint statement from the union and the United States Maritime Alliance, which represents the port employers, suggested the two parties came to a compromise which would mean any semi-automation introduced to ports would be paired with new union jobs.