The International Transport Workers' Union has expressed full and unconditional support for the struggle of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) which has proclaimed a strike that will take place from today in all the ports on the East Coast and the US Gulf because they were not The union's requests in the renewal negotiations accepted of the contract of the port workers of these ports.

Joining the support expressed by the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA), the President of International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF), Paddy Crumlin, who is also president of the Port Section of the union as well as national secretary of the MUA, stated that "the struggle of the ILA is the our struggle". "Our commitment to the ILA - added the Secretary General of the ITF, Stephen Cotton - is absolute and will never change. Dockers from all over the world face the same struggle: they want to be paid well for their hard work, want to be safe in the workplace and want to go home at the end of the shift to the people who are there love knowing that there is a secure job for them and for the next generation to carry out this fundamental work on coasts. That is why the ILA is fighting, and the ITF and the affiliated dockers' unions around the world support it to the end in this struggle."