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The strike, set to start Tuesday, could involve thousands of dockworkers demanding higher wages. Analysts say the combined disruptions could cost $5 billion a day and worsen inflation.
Nearly 50,000 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) are on strike Tuesday against the nation’s East and Gulf Coast ports, choking off the flow of many of America’s ...
"Remember, when we had the (General Motors) strike earlier in the year, they kept the strike to one plant at a time. So, GM has 20 plants, they shut down one of them. This one is broad-based, from ...
Purolator Inc. is a Canadian courier majority owned by Canada Post. It was founded as Trans Canada Couriers, Ltd and acquired in 1967 by Purolator , a US manufacturer of oil and air filters . [ 3 ]
The research group further predicted that the losses per day would accelerate the longer the strike went on. [10] J.P. Morgan estimated a higher $3.8 billion to $4.5 billion loss per day for the economy for the length of the strike, with some losses recovered following the strike's end. [6]
Purolator International and Purolator Inc. maintain a combined fleet of more than 4,000 owned-or-contracted delivery vehicles throughout the United States and Canada. The combined fleet is the largest dedicated fleet in North America. In 2000, Purolator Courier Ltd. (now known as Purolator Inc.) announced a “Greening the Fleet” [9] [10 ...
About 40% of agricultural exports ship in containers move through the East and Gulf Coast ports, according to the National Grain and Feed Association.
1988 Writers Guild of America strike: 154 days (the longest strike in the guild's history) [9] 1987 1987 Directors Strike 19 hours and 41 minutes (the shortest of all Hollywood strikes) [10] 1986 1986 Actors Strike 1 day [11] 1985 1985 Writers Strike 14 days 1982 1982 animators' strike: 72 days 1981 1981 Writers Guild of America strike: 92 days ...