Port Strike Ends After Three Days

A strike among port workers that threatened to disrupt ground transportation has fizzled out after three days.

Port workers with the International Longshoremen’s Association are set to resume work Oct. 4, following a three-day strike, according to a statement. The strike, which started Oct. 1, concerned wages and fears that automation would claim union jobs.

The group said it has “reached a tentative agreement on wages and have agreed to extend the master contract until January 15.” It did not provide specifics. The United States Maritime Alliance – which represents the carriers and the owners of the docks — signed onto the statement but issued none of its own.

The strike involved tens of thousands of port workers. The labor groups had demanded a “$5 an hour increase in wages for each of the six years” of a new contract, plus “absolute airtight language that there will be no automation or semi-automation.”