In a social media post, the union's president Harold Daggett said the union was fighting for “the kind of wages we deserve.” In a statement on Monday, the union blamed the United States Maritime Alliance,

The ILA PAC typically supports Democratic candidates, though it has recently contributed less than in previous decades.

Striking workers from the International Longshoremen’s Association stand on a picket line at the entrance to the South Locust Point Terminal in Baltimore. (Barbara Haddock Taylor/Staff)

When the clock strikes midnight Tuesday, tens of thousands of dock workers plan to strike at all Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports. The mass walk-out at ports, feared to have a trickle-down effect in the industry,

As president of the International Longshoremen’s Association, Harold Daggett is taking advantage of organized labor’s resurgence to drive a hard bargain.

A massive port strike up the East Coast that began on Tuesday has the potential to become one of America’s most disruptive work stoppages in recent times.

Members of the International Longshoremen's Association, some 45,000 workers at ports from Maine to Texas, are on strike, a shipping shutdown that could cost the economy up to $4.5 billion US a day.

Thousands of unionized dockworkers on the East and Gulf Coasts went on strike Tuesday morning, stranding cargo and sending ripples through supply chains for consumer goods and manufacturing parts. A contract between the operators of port terminals and the International Longshoremen’s Association,

A strike by dockworkers at dozens of U.S. ports has paralyzed about half of the country’s ocean shipping and a prolonged dispute could bring the issue close to home for consumers. The strike, which included about 45,