A prolonged shutdown could deal a significant blow to the economy since the workers control major commercial choke points.

U.S. East Coast and Gulf Coast dockworkers began a strike early on Tuesday, their first large-scale stoppage in nearly 50 ...

Estimates from the National Association of Manufacturers show the strike jeopardizes $2.1 billion in trade daily, and the total economic damage could reduce GDP by as much as $5 billion a day. NAM ...

East and Gulf coast port workers walked off the job at midnight after failing to agree to a new contract with the United ...

Some 45,000 union workers walked off the job at seaports on the U.S. East and Gulf Coasts on Oct. 1, cutting off vital trade ...

“You don’t have to pay pensions to robots,” Brian Jones, a foreman at the Port of Philadelphia, told the New York Times in ...