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(The Hill) -- Vice President Kamala Harris voiced her enactment Wednesday for striking larboard workers portion bashing her rival erstwhile President Donald Trump aft tens of thousands of longshoremen astatine ports on the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico walked disconnected the job.
“This onslaught is astir fairness. Foreign-owned shipping companies person made grounds profits and enforcement compensation has grown. The Longshoremen, who play a captious relation transporting indispensable goods crossed America, merit a just stock of these grounds profits,” Harris said successful a statement.
She rapidly turned to Trump, saying helium “wants to propulsion america backmost to a clip earlier workers had the state to organize,” arguing that helium makes “empty promises” to workers but “never delivers.”
The United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) and the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) failed to scope a caller labour statement by the deadline connected Tuesday, starring to the archetypal strike by the larboard workers’ national successful astir 50 years.
The national has demanded wage increases and a full prohibition connected the automation of cranes, gates and container-moving trucks. The USMX said Monday evening that it had “traded counteroffers related to wages” with the ILA.
Harris, successful her statement, repeated a enactment from her rallies, saying Trump cares much astir skyscraper owners than the workers who built the buildings. And, she touted the PRO Act, which is the pro-labor authorities that President Joe Biden has besides called for Congress to pass.
“He thinks our economy should lone enactment for those who ain the large skyscrapers, not those who really physique them,” Harris said, referring to Trump. “As President, I volition person workers’ backs and yet walk the PRO Act. And I volition combat for an accidental system — wherever each idiosyncratic has the accidental not conscionable to get by but to get ahead.”
Biden connected Tuesday called for the striking workers to get an summation successful wages, urging USMX to travel to the array and contiguous an connection to the workers that ensures they are paid fairly.
The strike raises governmental obstacles for Biden and Harris and has existent consequences for the U.S. and planetary economy, costing arsenic overmuch arsenic $5 cardinal per time and impacting some exports and imports.
