With the union and USMX resuming negotiations on Tuesday, January 7, the specter of another port shutdown is heightening concerns among economists, businesses and policy experts.

Following the strike, President Joe Biden called for a fair offer from the USMX an organization bargaining on behalf of the dockworkers' employers. In a statement released on Tuesday, ...

In a statement Monday, ILA executive vice president Dennis Daggett slammed the USMX's push to expand use of semi-automated rail-mounted gantry cranes (RMGs) across the East and Gulf Coast ports.

USMX last week offered a nearly 50% increase, along with improvements to employee benefits, but it was not enough to avert the first strike by East and Gulf Coast dockworkers in nearly half a century.

According to various news reports, the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) and the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) will return to the negotiating table on Jan. 7 as the deadline ...

What’s in the deal The maritime alliance, which operates under the acronym USMX, agreed to raises of $4 an hour for the union members on top of the current base pay of $39 an hour, an immediate ...

The USMX did not respond to The Hill’s request for comment. Trump, who takes office on Jan. 20, days after the strike deadline, appeared to side with longshoremen on the issue of automation last ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday urged dockworkers preparing to strike and their employers to come to an agreement that respects workers but averts supply chain disruptions. The post New York ...

"USMX knows what our bottom line with wages needs to be for our ILA rank-and-file to ratify a new Master Contract Agreement," ILA’s International President Harold Daggett said.

With U.S. East and Gulf Coast port workers set to strike in less than five hours, a port operator alliance said on Monday it traded new wage offers with the union, raising the outside possibility ...

USMX’s corporate greed has made them delusional — profits over people. They have taken advantage of a low entry-wage and a tiered progression system for thirty years,” the statement continued.

With time ticking away, prospects for a new East and Gulf Ports labor agreement between the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) continue to ...