News / Lessons must be learned from bitter USEC labour contract dispute

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Lessons should be learned from the chaos and animosity that festered throughout the negotiations over a new master contract between US east and Gulf coast port longshoremen and employer association USMX, it was said this week.

A last-minute deal at the end of the year, narrowly averting a strike, secured a new long-term contact that protects jobs and also creates a framework for the introduction of port automation.

Group VP of product strategy at supply chain management platform E2open John Lash welcomed ...