Senate Republicans hope to muscle through the upper chamber’s reconciliation package today. How have transportation ...

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.

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.

The extension to the master contract is retroactive to Oct. 1, 2024, and runs through Sept. 30, 2030. The labor battle between the ILA and the USMX was often contentious in the public arena, and ...

The USMX said Monday it had increased its offer to more than 50% over the proposed six-year contract. Daggett said Tuesday that offer works out to an average increase of $3 an hour.

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.

The USMX said in a statement on Monday it had offered to hike wages by nearly 50% and traded new proposals with the union in the last 24 hours and asked for an extension of the current master ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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.

If the USMX doesn’t agree to a new contract with the ILA by 11:59 p.m. Monday, thousands of members along the East Coast will strike at 12:01 Tuesday morning.