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The International Longshoremen's Union is demanding significantly higher wages and a total ban on the automation of cranes, gates and container movements that are used in the loading or loading of ...

AI ON THE WATERFRONT: Dockworkers’ fight to keep automated equipment out of ports’ climate strategies is back on — and this ...

Longshore unions are planning a global meeting to map out what they are framing as a war of survival against automation. The U.S.-based International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and International ...

Since the ILA’s Quadrennial Convention more than two years ago, ILA President Daggett has been calling for all maritime unions to join in solidarity to address the threat of automation and put the ...

From left to right: International Longshoremen's Association Executive VP Dennis Daggett, Donald Trump and ILA President Harold Daggett. [Photo: Trump/Truth Social] In an extraordinary letter to ...

Read full article: Dockworkers join other unions in trying to fend off automation, or minimize the impact The massive port workers’ strike is highlighting a fear held by many workers that they will be ...