Employers Boost Dockworker Wage Offer in Bid to Keep Ports Open

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By Laura Curtis

September 30, 2024 at 5:56 PM EDT

Updated on September 30, 2024 at 6:28 PM EDT

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The US Maritime Alliance says it has offered to boost wages for dockworkers by nearly 50% in an effort to resume negotiations with the International Longshoremen’s Union and avoid a potentially crippling strike at East Coast and Gulf ports.

USMX, as the group representing terminal operators and ocean carriers is known, said in a statement it has traded counteroffers with the dockworkers union related to wages over the last 24 hours.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-30/employers-boost-dockworker-wage-offer-in-bid-to-keep-ports-open