Nearly 50,000 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) are on strike Tuesday against the nation’s East and Gulf Coast ports, choking off the flow of many of America’s imports and exports in what could become the country’s most disruptive work stoppage in decades. ILA leader Harold Daggett details what the future holds. | New Bedford Guide

45,000 dock workers on East & Gulf coast ports are unionized with the International Longshoremen’s Association, or the ILA, and they are currently in contract negotiations with the US Maritime Alliance, which includes Maersk, the second largest shipping company in the world. While Maersk threatens the jobs of thousands of dockworkers through automation, they have also become a central target of another campaign. @PYM, a leading organization of the global Palestine solidarity movement, has recent