Payday Report: Dockworkers Impressed by Biden Calling Out Foreign-Owned Shippers
By MIKE ELK
Earlier today, over 45,000 members of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) went on strike against the United States Maritime Alliance(USMX), an association of various shipping employers dominated by multinational shippers.
The strike was the first time that workers in East Coast ports went on strike since 1977.
Unlike previous decades, when the presidential administration would invoke Taft-Hartley to stop a strike, the Biden Administration has vowed not to do this.
"There's collective bargaining, and I don't believe in Taft-Hartley," Biden told reporters on Monday.