Contract talks for US East Coast dockworkers breaks down two days after restart The breakdown of talks is an exposure of the supposed “victory” declared by the ILA after shutting down a three day strike by 45,000 workers in October. 11/17/2024 - 10:55 am | View Link
ILA dockworker negotiations stall, raising chance of a January strike at Baltimore’s port Negotiations between the International Longshoremen’s Association and port operators stalled this week, making a January strike possible. 11/15/2024 - 10:52 am | View Link
US East Coast, Gulf Coast port union and employers still at odds over automation The union representing 45,000 East Coast and Gulf Coast dockworkers and a group representing employers held a new round of contract talks this week but failed to make significant progress on some key ... 11/14/2024 - 2:27 am | View Link
New contract talks between East Coast dockworkers, port operators fail to make significant progress: ‘Would move our industry backward’ The union representing 45,000 East Coast and Gulf Coast dockworkers and a group representing employers held a new round of contract talks this week but failed to make significant progress on the ... 11/13/2024 - 7:31 am | View Link
US Dockworkers Call Off Talks Again, With Automation at Issue Most Read from BloombergUnder Trump, Prepare for New US Transportation PrioritiesZimbabwe City of 700,000 at Risk of Running Dry by Year-EndSaudi Neom Gets $3 Billion Loan Guarantee From Italy Export ... 11/13/2024 - 6:12 am | View Link
Dockworker A dockworker (also called a longshoreman, stevedore, or docker) is a waterfront manual laborer who loads and unloads ships. [1] As a result of the intermodal shipping container revolution, the required number of dockworkers has declined by over 90% since the 1960s. [2] 11/17/2024 - 8:12 pm | View Website
How much do dockworkers make? What to know about wages amid ... Almost 25,000 dockworkers at various ports along the East and Gulf Coasts are striking to ask for higher pay and protections from having their jobs automated out of existence. 11/17/2024 - 12:03 am | View Website
Dockworkers strike suspended, tentative agreement includes 62 ... A historic United States port strike has been suspended and a tentative agreement was reached "on wages," according to the International Longshoremen’s Association and the U.S. Maritime Alliance. 11/16/2024 - 8:28 pm | View Website
Dockworkers' union suspends strike until Jan. 15 | AP News Dockworkers return to work at Port Miami, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024, in Miami, after the union representing 45,000 striking U.S. dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports has reached a deal to suspend a three-day strike until Jan. 15 to provide time to negotiate a new contract. 11/16/2024 - 7:31 pm | View Website
How much do dockworkers make? Here is the pay raise they ... Roughly 25,000 dockworkers went on strike this week at ports along the East and Gulf Coasts of the U.S. to rally for higher pay and stronger guardrails around their jobs being automated out of... 11/16/2024 - 7:02 pm | View Website
A new and possibly less contentious era started Tuesday for the Broward School Board, as two new and three returning members were sworn in for new terms.
During a ceremony at Dillard High in Fort Lauderdale, board members pledged to focus more on student achievement and less on political differences in the coming years.
Joining the board are recently elected board members Maura Bulman, who represents the Hollywood area, and Rebecca Thompson, who represents the Pembroke Pines and Miramar areas.
Three board members were reelected: Sarah Leonardi and Jeff Holness of the Fort Lauderdale area, and countywide member Debbi Hixon.
All were elected in August to four-year terms except for Bulman, whose term will end in 2026.
The five join four board members who still have two more years on their terms: Lori Alhadeff, Brend Fam, Nora Rupert and Allen Zeman.
It’s the first time since May 2022 that the board will include no appointees from Gov.
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By MICHAEL CASEY
HENNIKER, N. H. (AP) — When Hector Xu was learning to fly a helicopter in college, he recalled having a few “nasty experiences” while trying to navigate at night.
The heart-stopping flights led to his research of unmanned aircraft systems while getting his doctorate degree in aerospace engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Multigenre music star Post Malone is bringing his 2025 summer tour to Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens on Sunday, June 8, joined by up-and-comer Jelly Roll.
After a series of presales, tickets will be available through a general on-sale beginning at noon Tuesday, Nov. 26, at LiveNation.com.
The first presale, for Citi customers, will run from noon Wednesday through 10 p.m.
By MICHAEL R. SISAK and JENNIFER PELTZ, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — New York prosecutors oppose any effort to dismiss President-elect Donald Trump’s hush money conviction, but they expressed some openness Tuesday to delaying sentencing until after his impending second term.
In a court filing Tuesday, the Manhattan district attorney’s office said Trump’s forthcoming presidency isn’t grounds for dropping a case that was already tried.
A boat with 18 migrants from China and Ecuador arrived in Pompano Beach Tuesday morning, officials say.
U. S. Customs and Border Patrol agents and local law enforcement officers responded to the migrant landing, according to a statement posted on X by Jeffrey Dinise, chief patrol agent of the Miami sector.