More industrial unrest in Bangladesh, more opportunity for India
Chaos has gripped Bangladesh’s supply chains, with strikes on rail networks and transport operators threatening ...
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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