January 9, 2025 — The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) – whose workers staff U.S. container ports from Maine to Florida – has reached a tentative agreement with managers to keep its members on the job, avoiding a strike that was due to resume on 16 January.
Contract details are being kept private until it is ratified by rank-and-file ILA members, but a joint statement from the union and the United States Maritime Alliance, which represents the port employers, suggested the two parties came to a compromise which would mean any semi-automation introduced to ports would be paired with new union jobs.