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Cargo could stop flowing at East and Gulf Coast ports, which handle most imports, if a union and an employers\u2019 group can\u2019t agree on the use of machines that can operate without humans.<\/p>\n

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Ports on the East and Gulf Coasts could close next week if dockworkers and employers cannot overcome their big differences over the use of automated machines to move cargo.<\/p>\n

The International Longshoremen\u2019s Association, the union that represents dockworkers, and the United States Maritime Alliance, the employers\u2019 negotiating group, on Tuesday resumed in-person talks aimed at forging a new labor contract.<\/p>\n

After a short strike<\/a> in October, the union and the alliance agreed on a 62 percent<\/a> raise over six years for the longshoremen \u2014 and said they would try to work out other parts of the contract, including provisions governing automated technology, before Jan. 15.<\/p>\n

If they don\u2019t have a deal by that date, ports that account for three-fifths of U.S. container shipments could shut, harming businesses that rely on imports and exports and providing an early test for the new Trump administration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIf there\u2019s a strike, it will have a significant impact on the U.S. economy and the supply chain,\u201d said Dennis Monts, chief operating officer of PayCargo, a freight payments company.<\/p>\n

The union is resisting automation because it fears the loss of jobs at the ports. President-elect Donald J. Trump lent his support to the union\u2019s position last month. \u201cI\u2019ve studied automation, and know just about everything there is to know about it,\u201d he said on his website Truth Social. \u201cThe amount of money saved is nowhere near the distress, hurt, and harm it causes for American Workers, in this case, our Longshoremen.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Cargo could stop flowing at East and Gulf Coast ports, which handle most imports, if a union and an employers\u2019 group can\u2019t agree on the use of machines that can operate without humans.Ports on the East and Gulf Coasts could close next week if dockworkers and employers cannot overcome their big differences over the use of automated machines to move cargo.The International Longshoremen\u2019s Association, the union that represents dockworkers, and the United States Maritime Alliance, the employers\u2019 negotiating group, on Tuesday resumed in-person talks aimed at forging a new labor contract.After a short strike in October, the union and the alliance agreed on a 62 percent raise over six years for the longshoremen \u2014 and said they would try to work out other parts of the contract, including provisions governing automated technology, before Jan. 15.If they don\u2019t have a deal by that date, ports that account for three-fifths of U.S. container shipments could shut, harming businesses that rely on imports and exports and providing an early test for the new Trump administration.\u201cIf there\u2019s a strike, it will have a significant impact on the U.S. economy and the supply chain,\u201d said Dennis Monts, chief operating officer of PayCargo, a freight payments company.The union is resisting automation because it fears the loss of jobs at the ports. President-elect Donald J. Trump lent his support to the union\u2019s position last month. \u201cI\u2019ve studied automation, and know just about everything there is to know about it,\u201d he said on his website Truth Social. \u201cThe amount of money saved is nowhere near the distress, hurt, and harm it causes for American Workers, in this case, our Longshoremen.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19594,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19595,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19592\/revisions\/19595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}