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The conversation around the dockworker strike also highlights a self-serving belief that automation will only disrupt manual fields, as if having a laptop job is a protective moat.
Talks between the ILA, which represents more than 45,000 dockworkers across the U.S. East and Gulf coast ports, and the employer group are at an impasse over issues related to automation at port ...
The three-day dockworker strike that crippled East and Gulf Coast ports put a spotlight on one of America's most important jobs: loading and unloading the billions of products — from food to ...
It is the first strike since 1977 for the International Longshoremen’s Assn., whose 47,000 members handle cargo operations at three dozen ports on the East and Gulf coasts that together receive ...
The union representing 45,000 striking U.S. dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports reached a deal Thursday to suspend a three-day strike until Jan. 15 to provide time to negotiate a new contract.
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]
The strike affecting 36 ports is the first by the union since 1977. Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas go on strike, a standoff risking new shortages Skip to main content
The 45,000 dockworkers who went on strike Tuesday for the first time in decades at 36 U.S. ports from Maine to Texas may wield the upper hand in their standoff with port operators over wages and ...