Dockworkers’ union, employers to resume talks as strike threat looms
Ohio U.S. Rep. Michael Rulli hits back at port workers and Minnesota Gov. Tim Waltz on tentative deal, saying he’s backing away from his previous demands for Tiananmen Square (CBS News).
It union A representative of the 45,000 US dockworkers who went on strike this fall is returning to the bargaining table with port employers amid threats of another strike at Eastern and Gulf ports this month.
FOX Business confirmed Thursday that International Longhair Association (ILA) and the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) will resume contract talks on Tuesday after talks broke down in November, with a deadline of January 15 to reach a deal before another strike.
Striking members of the International Longshoremen’s Association walk a picket line on October 2, 2024 in Brooklyn, New York. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images/Getty Images)
The two sides signed a tentative agreement in October that gave workers a 62% pay raise over six years to end a three-day strike, but issues related to automation remain unresolved.
The two sides are still deadlocked on automation. If a second strike happens, the agreed-upon wage agreement that ended the first strike will be taken off the table and the two sides will be back at square one.
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President-elect Trump Last month, he voiced his support for dockworkers’ fight against automation at US ports after he met with ILA President Harold Daggett and Executive Vice President Dennis Daggett.
Harold Daggett, president of the International Longshoremen’s Association, speaks as dockworkers at the Maher Terminals in Port Newark, New Jersey go on strike on October 1, 2024. (via Bryan R. Smith/AFP Getty Images/Getty Images)
“The amount of money saved [from automation] comes nowhere close to the anguish, pain, and damage it is causing American workers, in this case, our veterans,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. “Foreign companies have made a fortune in the United States by allowing them to enter our markets. They shouldn’t be scrambling for the last penny knowing how many families have been affected.”
President-elect Trump speaks to guests during a campaign event at auto parts maker Drake Enterprises on September 27, 2023 in Clinton Township, Michigan. (Scott Olson/Getty Images/Getty Images)
“They have record profits, and I’d rather these foreign companies spend it on the great men and women on our docks than on machines that are expensive and need to be replaced all the time,” the president-elect continued.
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The source said FOX Business: at the time USMX had a meeting with Trump’s transition team, but did not reveal when that would take place.
FOX Business’s Daniel Hillsdon and Reuters contributed to this report.
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