Multi-Industry Letter to President Biden on East Coast-Gulf Coast Port Labor Strikes

ASTA signed onto a coalition letter from multiple industries to President Biden and Vice President Harris in March 2022, imploring their early and persistent engagement in the impending contract negotiations between the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), encouraging a timely and satisfactory resolution that advances the needs of both the workers and the ports in order to avoid further backups, delays, and higher costs.

ASTA signed onto a coalition letter from multiple industries to members of the Senate Finance Committee in June 2024, imploring the swift passage of legislation to renew the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program.