US Dockworkers Begin Ports Strike

The Facts

• Some 50K members of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) went on a strike Tuesday at the US's East and Gulf Coast ports, the first time since 1977.

• As their contracts with 36 ports expired at midnight, dockworkers reportedly began walking picket lines seeking fair new ones and an end to job automation.

• At Port Houston and outside the Port of Philadelphia, the protesters reportedly chanted “No work without a fair contract” and displayed signs with the words.