The two major sticking points between the international longshoremen S Association and us Maritime Alliance are wages and automation. Workers are unhappy with the current contract, which spanned the pandemic, when Dock Workers stayed on the job and endured months of soaring inflation on automation, the Union Boss has been warning Dock Workers that their jobs could be replaced by machines. In response, the us Maritime Alliance has said its offering to keep the current ban on fully automated equipment. A strike could cost the us economy 5 Billion a day, according to Jp Morgan analysts. A range of Goods Flow through the East And Gulf coast ports, everything from raw materials and pharmaceuticals to clothes and toys, with the ports accounting for more than half of containerised imports. While consumers may not feel the impact of the strikes right away, if it extends for weeks, it could lead to shortages and higher prices ahead of the president ial election. Thats something new York Governo
0ur Correspondent Michelle Fleury is at the Port Of Newark in newjersey. Tell us what s going on there and all along the coast. We know the strike is about wages and automation, what s going on with the talks . Right now theres not much going on on on the docks, normally you might see some of the grains over their moving, containers being loaded, and off loaded from giant containerships, but all of that stopped at midnight last night. That is when the Master Contract between the union workers and the us Maritime Alliance expired, and the fight over wages and automation continues to rage and there is little agreement between them on this issue. So right now we are one of the Picket Lines here in newjersey, where workers have gathered short while ago, they stood in a long line singing, no automation, no automation. And we ve heard from the White House in the last few hours 7 what are they saying . How does this get solved . When it comes to critical infrastructure which ports are, and as
United states where ports all across the East And Gulf coasts including here in baltimore have virtually ground to a halt. It means goods ranging from cars to machinery and fresh fruit and vegtables are going to find a lot tougher to get into or out of the worlds biggest economy. An estimated 16,000 workers have stopped working over demands for more pay and less automation. The stoppages could cost the us economy as much as 5bn a day according to the Investment Bankjp Morgan but other experts say it will be less than that. One knock on could be as many as 100,000 people finding themselves temporarily out of work as the impact of the stoppage spreads. 0ur Correspondent Michelle fleury is at the Port Of Newark in newjersey. What other people telling you about how angry they are but also how long this might last . This is one of three dozen ports that are on strike as of midnight last night, and work is basically raring to go, blasting music this morning, i saw some children walking aroun
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