“Hey, tell the wharfinger the gang is hard-timing us and we’ve got nothing to dray.” The trouble at West Coast ports has thrown a spotlight on the colorful language of the docks, spiced with ...

And the International Longshoremen’s Association’s central demand is a total ban on automation involving cranes, gates and the loading and unloading of freight containers — leaving US ports ...

Thousands of East and Gulf Coast dockworkers went on strike demanding higher pay. Here are the wage increases they secured.

The longshoremen’s union is demanding a $5-an-hour increase in pay in each of the six years over the course of the next contract and “airtight” language that the ports won’t introduce ...

Longshoreman — or dock workers, as we are often referred to — work in commercial ports and harbors, unloading and loading cargo to and from vessels through either manual labor and by operating ...

In a massive betrayal, the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) shut down the powerful strike by 45,000 dockworkers Thursday afternoon.

The International Longshoremen’s Association is demanding significantly higher wages and a total ban on the automation of cranes, gates and container-moving trucks used in the loading or ...

It will give more longshoremen a chance to work as crane operators, one of the most prestigious and highest-paying jobs on the docks, said Michael Coe, vice president and training co-chair of the ...

Tampa resident Jerry Reyes keeps showing up on lists of so-called ghost workers at the heart of a longshoremen’s union corruption scandal on the docks of Port Tampa Bay. The allegation is that ...