Dockworkers And Operators At East And Gulf Ports Reach Tentative Contract Deal

The International Longshoremen’s Association, which represents dockworkers, and the US Maritime Alliance, which represents port operators at ports from Maine to Texas, as well as several ocean shipping companies, have reached a tentative contract agreement, it was announced Jan. 8. The agreement, which must be ratified by the union membership and the individual port operators,…