News / East coast port talks resume, with automation and jobs still the sticking points

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Negotiations between the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and the United States Maritime Employers (USMX) will resume today, but a weekend ’pre-meeting’ indicated it won’t be plain sailing.  

CNBC reported yesterday that the parties involved in the US east and Gulf coast port negotiations today held a “secret meeting” on Sunday “to help the dockworkers’ union and ports ownership find common ground on the heated issue of automation and semi-automation”. 

It reported a document produced from the eight-hour meeting showed an ILA ...