Dockworkers' union to suspend strike until Jan. 15 to allow time to negotiate new contract DETROIT (AP) — The union representing 45,000 striking U.S. dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports reached a deal Thursday to suspend a three-day strike until Jan. 15 to provide time to negotiate a new contract. The union, the International Longshoremen’s Association, is to resume working immediately. The temporary end to the strike came after the union and the U.S. Maritime Alliance, which represents ports and shipping companies, reached a tentative agreement on wages, the union and ports said in a joint statement. A person briefed on the agreement said the ports sweetened their wage offer from about 50% over six years to 62%. The person didn’t want to be identified because the agreement is tentative. Any wage increase would have to be approved by union members as part of the ratification of a final contract.
I don’t know if it had anything to do with the temporary settlement but the guilt trip DeSantis laid on them in his speech was righteous indeed. It isn’t that I really think the longshoremen’s union really gives a dern about American citizens going without necessities but to strike when there are so many that were affected by Helene, maybe the leaders of the union have a conscience after all. Of note though, they did set the date for re-negotiations a week or so after the Presidential inauguration. A game of political chess perhaps?