FMC urges industry to follow rules ahead of potential strikes

USMX says it wants to negotiate, ILA says employers refuse to accept its bottom line on pay increases.

With a potential strike by the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) approaching, industry stakeholders are implementing contingency plans.

Import cargo into Los Angeles increased 18% in August as the number of vessel calls at the port reached a four-year peak.

With the Biden administration declining to intervene, the threat of a port strike on the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico is increasingly likely to materialise.

Harold Daggett to USMX: “Let me tell them and all of America the ILA most definitely will hit the streets on October 1st if we don’t get the kind of contract we deserve.”

The Canada Industrial Relations Board has upheld a ministerial direction for compulsory arbitration and a back-to-work order to end the rail lock out that began on 22 August.