USMX calls the ILA to the table

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.

Unable to reach an agreement with the Teamsters, CN and CPKC locked out 9,300 workers and shut the Canadian rail system down.

With less than 24 hours till a strike/lockout takes place, CN and CPKC are making little if any progress in negotiations with the Teamsters.