ILA strike begins, disrupting East and Gulf Coast ports
October 1, 2024
Supply Chain Dive - Alejandra Carranza, Staff Reporter
Shipping containers stacked at the Port of Newark on Jan. 29, 2016, in Newark, New Jersey. The port is one of many along the East and Gulf Coast that could be impacted by the ILA’s strike. Spencer Platt via Getty Images
Without a new port labor deal, the International Longshoremen’s Association instructed its members to halt work after midnight Tuesday.
The International Longshoremen’s Association initiated a strike that has “shut down all ports from Maine to Texas at 12:01am on Tuesday, October 1, 2024,” the union said on Tuesday.
With the union unable to agree on a new master contract with the United States Maritime Alliance, or USMX, several terminals stopped running shortly after midnight. The union said, “tens of thousands of ILA rank-and-file members began setting up picket lines at waterfront facilities up and down the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts.”