The strike in the US is over for now.

The strike in the US is over for now. The union representing tens of thousands of dockworkers across the US has agreed to suspend its strike while negotiations continue until January 2025.⁠
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The strike action this week marked the first such shutdown in almost 50 years and threatened to wreak chaos in the shipping industry. Some if the ports included the nation's busiest, including New York, Georgia and Texas. They are estimated by experts to handle more than a third of US imports and exports. The deal ends the biggest work stoppage of its kind in nearly half a century, which blocked unloading of container ships from Maine to Texas and threatened shortages of everything from bananas to auto parts, triggering a backlog of anchored ships outside major ports.

The union says it has reached a tentative agreement on wages and will go back to work today until the 15th January 2025, when they will return to the bargaining table to negotiate "all other outstanding issues".

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