Hopes of a resolution to the ongoing stand-off between dockers and employers at ports on the US east and Gulf coasts are rapidly diminishing – neither side budging over automation.
With a “tentative agreement on wages” that ended a three-day closure of ports in October, the ILA union and port employer association USMX said they would extend the current master contract and negotiations until 15 January, six days before Donald Trump …
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