A prolonged shutdown could deal a significant blow to the economy since the workers control major commercial choke points.

A union contract involving 45,000 dockworkers lapsed on Monday, kicking off a strike that could shut down ports across the ...

Some 45,000 union workers walked off the job at seaports on the U.S. East and Gulf Coasts on Oct. 1, cutting off vital trade ...

Dockworkers began picketing at the Port of Philadelphia early Tuesday after the International Longshoremen's Association ...

East and Gulf coast port workers walked off the job at midnight after failing to agree to a new contract with the United ...

Nearly 50,000 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) are on strike Tuesday against the nation’s East ...

A strike that could bring higher prices and shortages of goods has begun at ports up and down the East Coast, and along the ...

Hundreds of longshoremen protested outside of the Virginia International Gateway in Portsmouth, Virginia, in the early hours ...

“You don’t have to pay pensions to robots,” Brian Jones, a foreman at the Port of Philadelphia, told the New York Times in ...

Strike shuts US East Coast, Gulf ports for the first time since 1977 - a stoppage that could cost the US economy billions of dollars.

Union dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas went on strike at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, putting coast-wide cargo in limbo.

Estimates from the National Association of Manufacturers show the strike jeopardizes $2.1 billion in trade daily, and the total economic damage could reduce GDP by as much as $5 billion a day. NAM ...