Anonymous ID: d94d48 Jan. 2, 2025, 1:14 a.m. No.22276692   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Reminder: the big strike had only been postponed before, still no new contract

 

Maersk Sees No Progress in U.S. Port Talks

By Brendan Murray (Bloomberg) — December 31, 2024

 

The world’s No. 2 container carrier urged customers to remove cargo from East and Gulf Coast ports in the US before a Jan. 15 deadline for dockworkers and their employers to avoid a possible strike just days before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

 

“If no agreement is reached by that date, a coast-wide strike on Jan. 16 is possible,” Copenhagen-based A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S said in a customer advisory posted Tuesday. “However, the negotiations have had no new developments since our last communication.”

 

In its previous advisory on Dec. 19, Maersk said “the situation remains dynamic as we await further developments but the possibility of a strike increases each day that passes without a settled contract.”

 

The International Longshoremen’s Association, or ILA, is a 47,000-member union that represents cargo handlers at every major eastern and southern port from Boston to Houston.

 

The ILA in recent months has tried negotiating a new contract with the United States Maritime Alliance, known as USMX, a group of shipping lines and terminal operators that employ them to load and unload container ships.

Wage Deal

 

In early October, the two sides reached a deal on a 62% wage increase over six years, suspending a three-day strike but leaving unresolved the issue of automation.

 

Talks on that issue don’t appear to be advancing, and neither the ILA nor USMX have indicated plans to return to the negotiating table before mid-January.

 

Trump, whose inauguration is set for Jan. 20, has voiced his support for dockworkers in their fight against automated machinery that they view as a threat to their jobs.

 

Maersk’s latest statement said considering the stalemate, “we strongly encourage our customers to pick up their laden containers and return empty containers at US East and Gulf Coast ports before Jan. 15.”

 

https://gcaptain.com/maersk-sees-no-progress-in-u-s-port-talks/

Anonymous ID: d94d48 Jan. 2, 2025, 1:19 a.m. No.22276705   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6733

>>22276696

>My point is the faggots will cry "Immigrants still good, because Americans still bad."

 

Not bad, just lesser skilled and whiny want gold sticky stars just for showing up for work products of the Publik Eudkashun Sistum that went to college and minored in Lesbian Interpretive Dance

Not so great at C++ but can CRT all day