As dockworkers walk out in massive port strike, the White House weighs in
President Joe Biden and his administration have signaled to both sides in the high-stakes dockworkers strike that they need to work things out “fairly and quickly,” the White House said in a statement Tuesday.
White House left with few good options as dockworkers walk out
After tens of thousands of dockworkers walked off the job at midnight, the Biden administration is confronting the complicated politics – and limited toolkit – of a work stoppage in the home stretch of a critical election season in which the economy has taken center stage.
US port workers union backed by White House in strike
President Joe Biden’s administration heaped pressure on U.S. port employers to raise their offer to secure a labor deal with dockworkers on strike for a second day on Wednesday, choking half the country’s ocean shipping.
ACA calls for White House to intervene in strike
The Auto Care Association is calling on the Biden Administration to "take all possible and appropriate steps" to facilitate an end the dockworkers' strike affecting East and Gulf Coast container ports.
White House urges dockworkers and East Coast ports to settle differences amid strike threat
A government task force is ready to help minimize supply-chain disruptions in case of a prolonged East Coast port strike, Biden administration says
The White House has few good options if the port strike becomes protracted
There are multiple approaches that the White House could take if the ports strike drags on and on — but they come with deep downsides.
White House Sides With Striking Dockworkers Union
As the strike keeps East Coast and Gulf Coast ports closed for a second day, the Biden administration increased pressure on port employers to reach a deal with the ILA.
Dockworkers strike is set to begin at midnight
The work stoppage threatens to significantly snarl the nation’s supply chain, potentially leading to higher prices and delays for households and businesses if it drags on for weeks. The union representing U.
'Don’t Panic': What PA Consumers Need To Know About Dockworkers Strike
Dockworkers at Philadelphia, as well as at Port of New York and New Jersey, are among 45,000 who went on strike Tuesday for the first time in decades, effectively shutting down ports from Maine to Texas where about half of U.
Here’s what a long dockworkers strike could mean for U.S. shoppers
The ports affected by the shutdown include Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, New York/New Jersey and Norfolk, Virginia.
White House and Trump echo dockworkers in blaming shipping lines
Biden and Trump lined up behind the dockworkers who walked out of every major East and Gulf coast port on Tuesday, each ...
Yes, the president can intervene in the dockworkers’ strike
The Taft-Hartley Act authorizes the president to temporarily prevent strikes so bargaining parties can try to settle. Biden ...
Biden administration holds back on intervention in dockworkers strike, deal
The Biden administration says it does not plan on intervening in labor negotiations between port owners and dockworkers ...
Auto industry urges Biden to act in dockworkers strike
From Maine to Texas, dockworkers at 36 ports across the eastern U.S. are now on strike for the first time in decades.
Biden backs dockworkers in labor strike, urges ocean carriers to offer ‘fair contract’
Foreign ocean carriers have made record profits since the pandemic, when Longshoremen put themselves at risk to keep ports ...
US dockworkers strike, halting half the nation's ocean shipping
Dockworkers on the U.S. East Coast and Gulf Coast began a strike early on Tuesday, their first large-scale stoppage in nearly ...
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Biden calls for return to bargaining table as port strike disruptions loom
President Joe Biden on Tuesday called for those on both sides of a port worker strike to return to the bargaining table as ...