US ports brace for potential dockworkers strike

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The International Longshoremen’s Association union is pressing for protections against automation-related job losses and for hefty wage hikes.
Photo: SAUL LOEB / AFP/File
Source: AFP

Tens of thousands of US dockworkers plan to strike next week if there is no breakthrough on contract talks, just a month before November’s closely contested presidential election.

A walkout affecting 14 large ports on the East and Gulf Coast could start at midnight on Tuesday October 1, posing a…

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