Supply Chains Dodge a Bullet…for Now (.PDF Download)

No sooner had the month of October begun than East Coast dockworkers went on strike. Eleventh-hour negotiations between the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) revealed some promise for a possible settlement, but in the end ILA members hauled out their signs and began picketing at ports up and down the East Coast and on the Gulf Coast.