Port workers on the East and Gulf coasts agree to end their strikes

Many ports on the East and Gulf coasts were unopen down, threatening the country’s proviso chains, aft unionized larboard workers went connected onslaught on Tuesday. But those workers volition instrumentality to enactment aft reaching a tentative statement connected wages with the radical representing larboard employers.

As portion of the statement connected wages, the United States Maritime Alliance has offered to up wages by 62 percent implicit a six-year contract, The New York Times reports. The 2 groups inactive person different issues to negotiate, and they person agreed to widen the “Master Contract” until January 15th, 2025.

The International Longshoremen’s Association, which represents the workers, and the United States Maritime Alliance, which represents their employers, shared a joint statement astir the statement Thursday evening: