The impact of the possible ILA strike is already starting to become visible in the U.S. What is likely to happen if a strike does occur?
FreightWaves examines the International Longshoremen’s Association’s concern with port automation and its effects on global port competitiveness.
Air Canada and Canadian businesses are imploring the Canadian government to take action as the airline’s standoff with pilots over a new contract nears a tipping point.
A threat to Mack Trucks’ primary business exists as long as brinksmanship with the striking UAW continues.
There’s plenty of cargo news in Canada with WestJet avoiding a pilots strike and Air Canada expanding its freighter network to Costa Rica.
WestJet Cargo finally got airborne last month after nearly a year of unexpected delays and now faces a shutdown by week’s end because of a labor dispute.
FedEx Express and the union representing its pilots on Wednesday filed for federal mediation with the National Mediation Board to help unglue contract negotiations that began in May 2021. The […]
Nine out of 12 labor unions have reached tentative agreements with the railroads, up from five last week.
Are you involved in the actual goods movement to other states or countries if you load the plane instead of fly it? Tune into SCOTUS this month to find out.
The port chaos cocktail: Mix 12 months of container bottlenecks with contentious contract talks for dockworkers.
Premar Global Warehouse Logistics employed 16 Mexican nationals to work as merchandise checkers in San Diego for the equivalent of $3.38 to $5.61 per hour in pesos.
Atlas Air pilots are peeved that an outside arbitrator jammed a new labor contract down their throat. Union says many are threatening to leave.
Tridonex factory agrees to pay more than $600,000 in back wages to laid-off workers.
Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Mexico remains top US trade partner; second USMCA labor complaint lodged at Mexican factory; Hyliion expands Texas headquarters; and avocado imports from Mexico up 26%.
United Auto Workers members at Volvo Trucks North America planned to resume a strike after rejecting a second tentative agreement .
A Mexican auto parts supplier became the first company to receive a labor violation complaint under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) on Monday. The complaint against the Tridonex auto parts […]
The Port of Montreal is a major trade gateway for Canada. The Canadian government busted up a strike by unionized dockworkers and cargo will start flowing again.
Ships could be idled as thousands of seafarers refuse contract extensions.
International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) will seek to overturn a jury verdict that says it owes $93.6 million to the former operator of the Port of Portlands container terminal.
The United Auto Workers voted 79% in favor of a new four-year contract at Mack Trucks following a 12-day strike that idled six facilities in three states and halted production at Volvo Trucks’ only assembly plant in North America.
Move effectively brings Port of Vancouver, Canada’s single largest trade hub, to a standstill as longshore union and employers press on in federally mediated negotiations.
Escalation in labor dispute threatens to put a stop to maritime trade across the province, including Vancouver.
Vote by International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada members ups the ante in contract talks by raising the prospect of a disruption at Canada’s largest port, Vancouver.
Rolling strikes by workers at the Hutchison Ports Australia box terminals in Sydney and Brisbane started at 6:00 a.m. (Australian Eastern Standard Time) yesterday January 17 and are causing logistics chaos.
