Unionized dockworkers at East and Gulf Coast ports are on strike, demanding higher wages and protection from automation, though experts warn automation is needed for competitiveness.

Dockworkers and longshoremen in east coast ports are now on strike in a major labor action with real consequences for the U.S ...

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce said Biden should use the Taft-Hartley Act to avoid the work stoppage at 14 ports from Maine to ...

Goldman Sachs said the port strikes are likely to have a relatively minor impact on U.S. gross domestic product while warning the shutdown is likely to have a much larger impact on trade volumes that ...

Port workers, led by ILA leader Harold Daggett, have stopped working indefinitely in a dispute over pay and automation.

Harold Daggett, head of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), made the vow on a picket line in New Jersey on ...

A prolonged work stoppage of several weeks or months could rekindle inflation for some goods and trigger layoffs at manufacturers as raw materials dry up, experts said.

The East Coast cargo stoppage could cause price hikes and snarl up industries from produce to liquor to electronics if it drags on too long, according to observers.

The U.S. dockworkers who went on strike Tuesday are just the latest unionized group to back their demands for better ...

A port strike on the East and Gulf Coasts could lead to supply chain disruption, stock shortages, and higher consumer prices, ...

The last time the International Longshoremen's Association shut ports with a strike was in 1977, over fear that modernization ...

PHILADELPHIA -- From Maine to Texas, dockworkers at 36 ports across the eastern United States are on strike for the first ...