WASHINGTON (AP) — Vowing to stop machines from taking their jobs, 45,000 U.S. longshoremen are threatening to go on a strike that would shut down ports on the East and Gulf coasts and could damage the ...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — The International Longshoremen’s Association and the U.S. Maritime Alliance reached a tentative agreement on a new six-year master contract Wednesday, averting a ...

Dennis Daggett, executive vice president of ILA, said in a statement on Dec. 2, 2024, that the union is not “against progress, innovation, or modernization—but we cannot support technology ...

Union President Harold Daggett, Dennis Daggett's father, has called for "absolute airtight" contract language stating that there will be no automation or semi-automation at port terminals.

A port strike is possible again if negotiators can't reach a deal by Jan. 15. A walkout could spark inflation and shortages, experts said.

“This isn’t about meeting operational needs,’’ Daggett’s son Dennis Daggett, the union’s executive vice president, wrote last month. “It’s about replacing workers under the guise ...

Dennis Daggett, the union’s executive vice president and son of Harold Daggett, wrote in a union statement last month that the move toward semi-automated cranes was “about job elimination.” ...