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A strike by 7,400 Canadian dockworkers against their West Coast ports employers has entered its fifth day as negotiations have stalled. The International Longshore & Warehouse Union Canada’s Longshore Division (ILWU Canada) went on strike Saturday after negotiations with the British Columbia […]

The ground is trembling beneath the less-than-truckload (LTL) market this week as Yellow, the third-largest US LTL carrier, warned in a court filing it may run out of cash as early as the middle of July. On top of that, […]

The battle over the constitutionality of California’s Prop 22 lives on, with the state’s Supreme Court granting review of mixed lower and appellate court rulings on the issue of exempting gig workers from independent contractor law AB5. The Supreme Court […]

With questions swirling around the fate of the nation’s third-largest less-than-truckload carrier, Yellow Corp., industry analysts have started looking at which carriers stand to benefit the most if the company fails. Seemingly running out of options, Yellow (NASDAQ: YELL) filed a […]

Truck tonnage volumes snapped two months of declines with an increase in May, according to data issued today by the American Trucking Associations (ATA). The ATA’s advanced Seasonally Adjusted (SA) For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index, for May, came in at 115.4 […]

A tentative deal between the Pacific Maritime Association and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union was announced Wednesday night, ending 14 days of worker slowdowns and stoppages that crippled port productivity. The new contract is for six years and will […]

The FedEx Master Executive Council (MEC), the governing body of the FedEx unit of the Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l (ALPA), have approved a tentative pilot contract reached with the express airline last month. The tentative contract agreement, which was reached […]

With a strike authorization vote underway, union leaders and UPS announced a tentative deal to add air conditioning to the package carrier’s iconic brown delivery vehicles for the first time. “The Teamsters and UPS agreed to tentative language to equip […]

Hamburg Sud has been ordered to pay almost $10 million to an e-commerce home goods retailer for refusing to fulfill a shipping contract with the company in retaliation for a previous complaint it filed against the carrier, an administrative law […]

In a dispute about the pressure that organized labor can exert during a strike, the Supreme Court ruled June 1 against unionized drivers who walked off the job with their trucks full of wet concrete. The decision united liberal and conservative […]