ILA Update – Sunday, September 29, 2024, at 12 noon

NORTH BERGEN, N.J. – (September 29, 2024) With 36 hours to go before the end of the ILA-USMX contract tomorrow evening, the 85,000 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association, joined in solidarity by tens of thousands of dockworkers and maritime workers around the world, will hit the picket lines at 12:01 am on Tuesday, October 1, 2024 and strike at all Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports from Maine to Texas.

United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) refuses to address a half-century of wage subjugation where Ocean Carriers profits skyrocketed from millions to mega-billion dollars, while ILA longshore wages remained flat.

ILA unity remains strong and is growing.

The ILA will update the public and media on any new developments tomorrow morning by 11 am. The ILA is not engaging in one-on-one interviews today or tomorrow. We have no information to release about locations of pickets or protests beginning at 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday, October 1, 2024.