The labor union representing the 45,000 U.S. dockworkers who went on strike within the fall is returning to the negotiating desk with port employers amid threats of finishing up one other strike at East and Gulf Coast ports this month.
FOX Enterprise confirmed Thursday that the Worldwide Longshoreman’s Affiliation (ILA) and United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) will resume contract discussions on January 7 after talks broke down in November. The deadline to succeed in a deal earlier than one other strike is January fifteenth.
Hanging members of the Worldwide Longshoremen’s Affiliation, or ILA, stroll a picket line on October 2, 2024, in Brooklyn. Dockworkers had been placing over wages, use of automated expertise and different labor points. (Photograph by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis by way of Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)
Each events signed a tentative deal in October – which gave employees a 62% wage hike over six years –to finish a three-day strike, however left points associated to automation unresolved.
The 2 sides are nonetheless at an deadlock over automation. If a second strike happens, the wage settlement agreed to in precept that ended the primary strike could be taken off the desk, and each side could be again at sq. one.
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President-elect Trump expressed his assist for dockworkers’ pushback in opposition to automation at U.S. ports final month after he met with ILA President Harold Daggett and Govt Vice President Dennis Daggett.
Harold J. Daggett, president of the Worldwide Longshoremen’s Affiliation speaks as dockworkers on the Maher Terminals in Port Newark are on strike on October 1, 2024, in New Jersey. (BRYAN R. SMITH/AFP by way of Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)
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“The amount of money saved [from automation] is nowhere near the distress, hurt, and harm it causes for American Workers, in this case, our Longshoremen,” Trump wrote on his Fact Social platform. “Foreign companies have made a fortune in the U.S. by giving them access to our markets. They shouldn’t be looking for every last penny knowing how many families are hurt.”
President-elect Donald Trump speaks to company throughout a marketing campaign cease at Drake Enterprises, an automotive components producer, on September 27, 2023, in Clinton Township, Michigan. (Scott Olson/Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)
“They’ve got record profits, and I’d rather these foreign companies spend it on the great men and women on our docks, than machinery, which is expensive, and which will constantly have to be replaced,” the president-elect continued.
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A supply informed FOX Enterprise on the time that the USMX had a gathering arrange with Trump’s transition staff, however didn’t reveal when it could happen.
FOX Enterprise’ Daniel Hillsdon and Reuters contributed to this report.
