In Houston, which is the country’s largest port by waterborne tonnage, impacts to exports could reach up to $51 million per day of strike, and impacts to imports could reach up to $41.5 million ...

Hundreds of Union workers on strike came out to the Port of Houston to demand fair wages and protections against automation.Many were carrying signs that read “NO WORK WITHOUT A FAIR CONTRACT ...

MORE ON THE STRIKE: Looming longshoremen's strike could bring work stoppage to Port of Houston. The economic impact of such a work stoppage would be enormous, particularly if it's prolonged. Kidd ...

A potential strike by longshoremen at the Port of Houston, starting Oct. 1, may mean the end to Amazon deliveries, Walmart shopping sprees and car deliveries if a deal cannot be worked out by Sept ...

SEE ALSO: Owner of trucking business scrambling for options as port strike imminent in Houston. A strike by the ILA workers would be the first by the union since 1977 and could have major impacts ...

Port of Houston dockworkers have joined the nearly 50,000 striking from Texas to Maine. ILA union demands fair wages, automation ban in new contract.

Port of Houston dockworkers may strike. ... Strike risks mounted in June 2024, with the ILA refusing to continue contract negotiations over the use of technology that bypassed union labor.

Port of Houston dockworkers begin strike over wages and automation. ... ILA members make a base salary of about $81,000 per year, ...

Ed Hirs, energy fellow at the University of Houston, said the previous ILA strike, in 1977, came after the rise of container shipping in the 1950s and 1960s. "It's really difficult to say that the ...

A container is lifted off of a ship at the Bayport container terminal, at one of two of the Port of Authority's private container terminals in LaPorte, Wednesday, May 23, 2012, in Houston.

A looming end-of-month strike by longshoremen could bring a work stoppage to the Port of Houston, the busiest container port on the Gulf Coast, upending commerce in the Houston region and its ...