The head of the dockworkers union praised President-elect Trump for his support amid contract negotiations with port ...

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 threat of a strike at East and Gulf Coast ports ended when the dockworkers union and the shipping companies reached a tentative contract deal that appears to allow for some use of automation.

The United States Maritime Alliance and International Longshoremen's Association reached a deal on a contract Wednesday night avoiding a strike that could have shut down ports up and down the East ...

A major East Coast dockworkers’ union is reportedly set to resume talks with port operators next week, with some industry executives sounding alarms that another strike is likely as job ...

The International Longshoremen's Association and United States Maritime Alliance reached a tentative deal on Wednesday, averting a looming strike set for later this month.

Dockworkers from Boston to Houston were just a week away from another strike, then came word of a tentative deal on a new contract. The dockworkers' union and the shipping companies appear to have ...

The tentative agreement averts a potential strike at ports from Maine to Texas.

A deal would mark the end of a contentious fight between the dockworker union and their employers over how certain technology can be implemented at the ports, which handle roughly half of all U.S.

The dockworkers' union and the shipping companies appear to have found common ground on one key sticking point, the use of automated technology. NPR's Andrea Hsu has more.

East and Gulf Coast port operators late Wednesday struck an agreement with a dockworkers union, resolving a labor dispute that had threatened to halt shipments for a second time in three months.