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(NewsNation) — A strike shutting down ports from Maine to Texas could enactment vacation buying — and the United States system — astatine risk.
The International Longshoremen Association’s onslaught — affecting ports on the East and Gulf coasts betwixt Maine and Texas — comes aft stalled negotiations with the U.S. Maritime Alliance. The national wants higher hourly wages and bans connected automated cranes, gates and trucks.
It’s the archetypal clip the national has been connected onslaught since 1977.
“ILA Longshore workers merit to beryllium compensated for the important enactment they bash keeping American commerce moving and growing," the national said successful a statement.
"It's disgraceful that astir of these foreign-owned shipping companies are engaged successful a 'make and take' operation: they privation to marque their billion-dollar profits astatine United States ports, and disconnected the backs of American ILA longshore workers, and instrumentality those net retired of this state and into the pockets of overseas conglomerates."
The strike could battalion a punch. The Baltimore larboard unsocial leads the state successful car shipments.
President Joe Biden told reporters Sunday helium would not intervene successful negotiations. The onslaught could outgo the U.S. system $3.8 cardinal to $4.5 cardinal per day, with immoderate of that recovered implicit clip aft mean operations resume, according to the Associated Press.
