The ILA posted the following statement about its Master Contract on its Facebook page:

The storied union behind the port strike halting ships from Maine to Texas reflects a throwback to more traditional, top-down era of labor culture and activism.

The union representing 45,000 striking dockworkers in South Carolina and other East and Gulf coast ports has agreed to suspend its 3-day strike until Jan. 15

Long lines of container ships queued up outside major U.S. ports on Thursday as the biggest dockworker strike in nearly half a century entered its third day preventing unloading and threatening shortages of everything from bananas to auto parts.

The union representing 45,000 striking U.S. dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports has reached a deal to suspend a three-day strike until Jan. 15 to provide time to negotiate a new contract.

Long lines of container ships lined up outside major U.S. ports on Thursday as the biggest dockworker strike in nearly half a century entered its third day, preventing unloading and threatening shortages of everything from bananas to auto parts.

The strike by the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) union has blocked goods from food to automobile shipments across dozens of ports from Maine to Texas, a disruption that analysts warn will cost the economy billions of dollars a day.

About 45,000 dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas are on strike in a labor action that could impact the country’s supply chain—and potentially the election. Tens of thousands of dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas went on strike Tuesday after the contract between the International Longshoremen’s Association and the United States Maritime Alliance expired without a new agreement in place.