Excerpts from Wednesday’s Journal of Commerce:
Negotiations for a new International Longshoremen’s Association contract covering dockworkers at East and Gulf Coast ports broke down Wednesday, and ILA President Harold Daggett warned that a strike is likely when the current contract expires Sept. 30.
“It looks like we’re going to have a strike,” Daggett told The Journal of Commerce after what was expected to be three days of negotiations with United States Maritime Alliance ended abruptly after a 20-minute meeting.
Daggett said he would ask USMX for a final offer to present to the union’s 200-member wage scale committee. “I expect they’ll reject it, and vote to go on strike,” he said.