Back to work order sees Canadian ports reopen to a battle against backlogs
Operations have resumed at strike-hit ports across Canada, but the work stoppage has resulted in ...
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For the past half-year or so, it has been Premium’s contention that an International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) strike across the US’s east and Gulf coasts was unlikely to happen, largely because the present White House administration had shown itself to lean on the side of labour in previous disputes – a view most succinctly summed up by this quote from Peter Friedmann of the Agricultural Transportation Coalition, speaking at the TPM conference in Long Beach in March:
“If you look at ...
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