Members of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) walked off the job on Tuesday, citing demands for better pay. Here’s what the dockworkers are currently earning.

The port’s 170 workers are now set to return to work alongside the 45,000 other ILA members who had been on strike as of Tuesday, and any major disruptions which a prolonged closure may have posed to manufacturers’ supply chains will be largely avoided.

Longshoremen are returning to work at ports from Maine to Texas, just three days after walking out on a strike that threatened to cripple the economy if it went on for an extended period of time. In a joint statement Thursday night,

Longshoremen and dockworkers, belonging to the ILU, are demanding "absolute airtight" protection against the threat of automation at U.S. ports.

We’re prepared to stay on strike for as long as it takes to secure the wages and protections our members deserve.”

U.S. ports reopened after dockworkers agreed to return to work, ending a three-day strike that threatened to disrupt the American economy just weeks ahead of the presidential election.The breakthrough Thursday came after port employers offered a 62% increase in wages over six years,

A port worker strike that’s seen 50,000 longshoremen walk off the job is sending some shoppers in the Mid-South into panic mode. Many stores are now putting in orders for extra supplies from their warehouses because of shoppers over-buying,

About a hundred striking longshoremen marched by a terminal in the port of Baltimore. Some carried signs that read: “machines don’t feed families.”