US ports longshoremen’s strike (East and Gulf coasts)

Automation is one of the issues, the other one is pay. The moran that runs the ILA union actually things that his workers are going to get a 77% pay increase over the next 6 years. That's like 11-12% a year and is crazy. The rest of us in the real world claw for our 2-3% every year.

IMO the 50% / 8.5% for 6 years was very fair.

Word within the industry is that the union boss Haggett wanted to have the strike as his legacy, there hasn't been a strike on the EC/GC in 44 years.