Longshoremen

Boeing is just the latest business to grapple with union workers over issues including wages and benefits like health care.

Whether or not to add housing to Mayor Bruce Harrell's industrial zoning proposal has split the city's maritime and trade unions — posing a sticky political question for Seattle City Council.

On this day, the British Empire passed the 1765 Stamp Act and a formative strike began on the Tacoma docks in 1886. In 1965, Bob Dylan released a new album, shocking his folk fans with an electric sound.

Negotiators have agreed to a tentative contract covering West Coast dockworkers, likely ending a protracted labor dispute that has snarled international…

Global shipping companies are looking for other seaports to unload their goods, including those in Canada and along the East Coast of the U.S.

The worsening labor dispute at West Coast container ports is causing shippers to search for alternate pathways to and from Asia.An obvious place to look…

Employers could lock out West Coast dockworkers in as few as five days if the two sides do not reach a new contract.That warning came Wednesday from the…

Terminal operators at West Coast ports say longshore workers are slowing down work to win leverage in contract talks. Now exports of potatoes appear to be…

The operators of West Coast port terminals say the International Longshore and Warehouse Union is engaged in a work slowdown at the ports of Seattle and…

Grain export companies and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union say they’ve reached a tentative labor agreement that could end a lockout at…