{"id":129025,"date":"2024-10-03T23:33:16","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T23:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/03\/port-workers-on-the-east-and-gulf-coasts-agree-to-end-their-strikes\/"},"modified":"2024-10-03T23:33:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T23:33:16","slug":"port-workers-on-the-east-and-gulf-coasts-agree-to-end-their-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/03\/port-workers-on-the-east-and-gulf-coasts-agree-to-end-their-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Port workers on the East and Gulf coasts agree to end their strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<figure>\n      <figcaption>Photo by Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"F2ZuqK\">Many ports along the East and Gulf coasts were shut down, threatening the country\u2019s supply chains, after unionized port workers went on strike <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/10\/1\/24259395\/port-workers-ila-east-gulf-coast-strike-automation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on Tuesday<\/a>. But those workers will return to work after reaching a tentative agreement on wages with the group representing port employers. <\/p>\n<p id=\"GYYlE7\">As part of the agreement on wages, the United States Maritime Alliance has offered to up wages by 62 percent over a six-year contract, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/03\/business\/economy\/port-strike-suspended.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The New York Times<\/em> reports<\/a>. The two groups still have other issues to negotiate, and they have agreed to extend the \u201cMaster Contract\u201d until January 15th, 2025.<\/p>\n<p id=\"3QTruJ\">The International Longshoremen\u2019s Association, which represents the workers, and the United States Maritime Alliance, which represents their employers, shared a <a href=\"https:\/\/ilaunion.org\/joint-statement-regarding-master-contract\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">joint&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/10\/3\/24261653\/port-workers-strike-tentative-agreement-wages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue reading&hellip;<\/a>\n  <\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/10\/3\/24261653\/port-workers-strike-tentative-agreement-wages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images Many ports along the East and Gulf coasts were shut down, threatening the country\u2019s supply chains, after unionized port workers went on strike on Tuesday. But those workers will return to work after reaching a tentative agreement on wages with the group representing port employers. As part of the agreement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-129025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}