Items Tagged with 'International Longshoremen’s Union'

Roughly 25,000 dock workers went on strike early Tuesday morning leaving ports stretching from Maine to Texas unable to move containers of poultry, soybeans, animal feed, cotton, meats, bananas and other agricultural products onto and off of ships. 

An impasse in discussions over an expiring contract has dockworkers readying for a strike that could leave containers piling up at ports along the East and Gulf Coasts, force cargo ships to sit in harbors until it clears, and scramble routes for agricultural goods at a critical time of year for farmers.