The strike by workers at U.S. ports along the East Coast and Gulf Coast has led to plenty of debate about their pay demands. However, the bigger issue at stake is the threat of automation. Some members of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) already earn some of the highest wages among blue-collar workers.

Dozens of ports along the East and Gulf coasts of the US have shut down as thousands of dock workers strike over wages and technology that could replace jobs, according to CNBC. The strike, which began just past midnight on October 1st,

Dockworkers in South Florida have joined a nationwide strike by the International Longshoremen Association — the first one in 50 years. More than 200 workers in Fort Lauderdale camped outside the entrance of Port Everglades,

When the clock strikes midnight Tuesday, tens of thousands of dock workers plan to strike at all Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports. The mass walk-out at ports, feared to have a trickle-down effect in the industry,

President Biden and other top aides urged port companies to offer fair deals to striking dockworkers and warned against profiteering off the strikes

Strike – first by port workers on US east coast since 1977 – threatens to shut down ports from Maine to Texas

President Joe Biden on Tuesday called for those on both sides of a port worker strike to return to the bargaining table as U.S. ports brace

President Biden called for striking port workers to get an increase in wages, hours after tens of thousands of longshoremen at ports along the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico walked off the job. The United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) and the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) failed to reach an agreement by the midnight deadline,