By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-04 01:00:33 | Updated at 2024-10-04 03:16:36
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Dockworkers' union to suspend strike until Jan. 15 to allow time to negotiate new contract
Associated Press ^ | October 03, 2024 | Tom Krisher
Posted on 10/03/2024 5:56:15 PM PDT by 4Runner
DETROIT (AP) — The union representing 45,000 striking U.S. dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports reached a deal Thursday to suspend a three-day strike until Jan. 15 to provide time to negotiate a new contract.
The union, the International Longshoremen’s Association, is to resume working immediately. The temporary end to the strike came after the union and the U.S. Maritime
Alliance, which represents ports and shipping companies, reached a tentative agreement on wages, the union and ports said in a joint statement.
A person briefed on the agreement said the ports sweetened their wage offer from about 50% over six years to 62%. The person didn’t want to be identified because the agreement is tentative. Any wage increase would have to be approved by union members as part of the ratification of a final contract.
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1 posted on 10/03/2024 5:56:15 PM PDT by 4Runner
To: 4Runner
They’re postponing their strike so that Democrat-Communists can more easily steal the next election.
2 posted on 10/03/2024 5:58:54 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
To: 4Runner
Hopefully the increased cost of going through a port
Pushes production on shore.
3 posted on 10/03/2024 5:58:58 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Scary that a party can "run" a candidate that doesn't feel any need to campaign.)
To: 4Runner
Admins please delete post. Story already posted earlier this evening. Ran search using header but nothing came back. Sorry.
4 posted on 10/03/2024 6:00:03 PM PDT by 4Runner (Watch. Wallet. Gun! Left Foot! Right Foot! Thank God For Guns!....Denny Crane)
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