The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) voted to support a call for a strike at East Coast ports in the U.S.
Nearly 300 ILA wage scale delegates ended their two-day meetings in New Jersey by unanimously supporting international president Harold J. Daggett’s call for a coastwide strike at ports from Maine to Texas, which would begin October 1 if a new agreement with the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) is not reached by that time.
Frank Kenney, director of industry solutions at Cleo, an end-to-end supply chain integration software company, said a port strike along the U.S. East Coast would significantly increase traffic through the Port of Halifax and Port of Montreal due to their proximity to rail carriers.
Read more in an article from Inside Logistics.