ILWU

Canada's West Coast ports are going to reopen. Not because negotiations between dockworkers and employers reached resolution or made progress. In fact, part of why they're reopening is because [...]

Ports shut down yesterday as a result of a union strike and lockout over contract negotiations. It sounds familiar, but we're not talking about the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) [...]

Maybe this will finally be the last time I write about this story. The International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) will at last pay one of the parties it wronged at the Port of Portland, [...]

What were Universal Cargo's top blog posts of 2023? Every year, we like to count it down from 10 to 1, classic David Letterman style. Sometimes we do the top 10 international shipping news [...]

If there's one word shippers hate to hear in relation to the dockworkers and their unions that control the jobs up and down the U.S. coasts, it's strike. We're a little under a year away from the [...]

The International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU), which represents approximately 40,000 dockworkers up and down the West Coast, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Saturday night, according to a [...]

Well, that didn't last long. The good feelings that the strike at Canada's ports was over only lasted days. However, a resumed or new strike (depending on your point of view) this week was even [...]

The International Longshore & Warehouse Union Canada (ILWU Canada) strike ended with a tentative deal last week. Chris Helgren reported in Reuters: "Dock workers at ports along Canada's Pacific [...]

Both the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) said they will not work containerships diverted to U.S. ports because of the ILWU [...]

The International Longshore & Warehouse Union Canada (ILWU Canada) gave formal notice yesterday that it will strike starting Saturday morning. The union sent a short letter of notice to British [...]

Things were getting tense at West Coast ports when a tentative agreement for a new International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) contract was finally reached last week. The union and [...]

The latest International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) labor action that shut down terminals and slowed down port operations up and down the West Coast is all about money. The ILWU is [...]

International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) labor action shut down port terminals up and down the West Coast on Friday. The labor action actually started on Thursday evening and has [...]

For the first time in a long time, real positive news on the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) contract negotiations broke yesterday. It was a localized agreement I'll talk about [...]

Want to know what's happening with international shipping right now? You're in the right place. Today's post hits top international shipping news stories affecting shippers' import and export [...]

The International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) claimed today to have reached a "tentative agreement" with the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) on "certain key issues." Immediately, it [...]

Patrick E. McLean wrote in his book How to Succeed in Evil, "There is no such thing as coincidence, Topper. It is always, always your enemies conspiring against you." Shippers may feel that's an [...]

The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach suddenly shut down Thursday night. The closure of the country's busiest port complex continued Friday. "Terminals noted they closed due to labor [...]

A group of 238 state, local, and federal trade associations sent a letter to President Biden, imploring him and his administration to mediate the International Longshore & Warehouse Union [...]

The Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) released an images to the media of trucks backed up on Friday from a terminal at the Port of Los Angeles. Labor action by the International Longshore & [...]