US port capacity and kicking the strike can down the road
Gauging the ripple effect
With negotiations at the US west coast ports to begin this week, 10 May, the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) is positioning itself as ’modernists held back by luddites’, while the union has appealed to Americans to back US dockers against ’foreign plunderers’.
In an open letter, International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) president Willie Adams praised his 22,000 members as frontline workers that kept US commerce working throughout the pandemic.
Mr Adams said that union members had experienced the same fears and ...
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