U.S. port, union talks break down again over automation, with two months to go before potential strike
With roughly two months before union workers at East and Gulf Coast ports may begin a new strike, a fight over automated technology is slowing negotiations.
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LYNDHURST, NJ. — Progress was made this past week in reaching a new Master Contract between the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and the US Maritime Alliance (USMX), but all that came to a halt when the issue of automation came up.
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The International Longshoremen’s Association broke off negotiations on a new contract with the United States Maritime Alliance, charging employers want to eliminate union jobs.
US East Coast, Gulf Coast port union and employers still at odds over automation
The union representing 45,000 East Coast and Gulf Coast dockworkers and a group representing employers held a new round of contract talks this week but failed to make significant progress on the critical issue of automation,
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Containers are stacked beneath cranes at Port Newark Container Terminal as U.S. East Coast and Gulf ports resumed operations Friday after unionised dockworkers reached a tentative labour agreement with an employer group for a new contract,
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The union rejected the USMX's latest proposal, calling the move a "renewed attempt by USMX to eliminate ILA jobs."
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