Ports seek order to force dockworkers to bargaining table as strike looms at East and Gulf ports

DETROIT (AP) — With a strike deadline looming, the group representing East and Gulf Coast ports is asking a federal agency to make the Longshoremen’s union come to the bargaining table to negotiate a new contract.

The U.S. Maritime Alliance says it filed an unfair labor practice charge on with the National Labor Relations Board alleging that the International Longshoremen’s Association is not bargaining in good faith.

The alliance said in a prepared statement Thursday that it filed...