{"id":2638,"date":"2025-02-26T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/?p=2638"},"modified":"2025-02-27T10:39:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T02:39:52","slug":"new-labour-contract-at-us-ports-ratified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/new-labour-contract-at-us-ports-ratified\/","title":{"rendered":"New labour contract at US ports ratified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There has been some excellent news from the USA today that dockworkers from the International Longshoremen&#8217;s Association (ILA) have voted overwhelming in favour of a new six-year labour contract with employers.<br><br>The ratification of the deal lifts any lingering threat of renewed industrial action at US East and Gulf coast ports and is great news for the U-Freight Group, and\u00a0customers that use our portfolio of international ocean freight operations through the container terminals at those ports, which include LCL and FCL import and export operations.<br><br>The news has been widely covered by the international media and a good example can be seen here:<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/us-east-coast-dockworkers-ratify-new-six-year-contract-2025-02-26\/#:~:text=Feb%2025%20(Reuters)%20%2D%20Over,Maine%20to%20Texas%20in%20October\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/us-east-coast-dockworkers-ratify-new-six-year-contract-2025-02-26\/#:~:text=Feb%2025%20(Reuters)%20%2D%20Over,Maine%20to%20Texas%20in%20October<\/a>.<br><br>For more information about our ocean freight forwarding and logistics services, please visit the relevant pages of this website, or contact your local office, which can be seen here: <a href=\"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/locations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/ufreight.com\/locations<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been some excellent news from the USA today that dockworkers from the International Longshoremen&#8217;s Association (ILA) have voted overwhelming in favour of a new six-year labour contract with employers. The ratification of the deal lifts any lingering threat of renewed industrial action at US East and Gulf coast ports and is great news&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2639,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638\/revisions\/2639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufreight.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}