For the first time in nearly 50 years, dockworkers at ports along the East and Gulf coasts have gone on strike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Members of the International Longshoremen’s Association\u00a0walked off the job at 12:01 a.m. Oct. 1<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 the minute their six-year labor contracts expired \u2014 with three local Charleston union affiliates picketing outside S.C. State Ports Authority terminals for better wages, job security and “respect.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nearly 20 people stood along Morrison Drive in Charleston, across from the SPA’s Columbus Street Terminal, holding high signs that read \u201cNo work without a fair contract\u201d and \u201cAutomation hurts families: ILA stands for job protection.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Randy Campbell, a union vice president, said that members of his local ILA 1771, and two others, 1422 and 1422A, will remain outside of the Wando Welch, North Charleston and Columbus Street terminals until negotiations are done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><\/p> This morning, at 12:01 a.m., 45,000 union dockworkers represented by the International Longshoremen\u2019s Association (ILA) at major ports along the East and Gulf coasts went on strike.
Here\u2019s what you need to know: https:\/\/t.co\/HPCE6q1m8v<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/7eBJ51cow4<\/a><\/p>— SC Chamber of Commerce (@scchamber) October 1, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>