FIRST SINCE 1977: U.S. East Coast port strike SET FOR 12:01am Tuesday with no talks scheduled. Biden won't step in. ALMOST 50% OF ALL GOODS COMING INTO U.S. AFFECTED!
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INCREDIBLE DAMAGE BY HURRICANE HELENE LEAVING CITIES DECIMATED, ROADS INACCESSIBLE AND INCREDIBLE DAMAGE EVERYWHERE. SOUTHERN BORDER WIDE OPEN WITH MANY MILLIONS ILLEGALS HERE AND MANY CRIMINALS. BIOLAB EXPLOSION IN GEORGIA SPEWING DANGEROUS TOXIC CHEMICALS INTO THE AIR. A NEW HURRICANE IN THE GULF FORMING AND REPORTS ARE SAYING IT WILL TAKE THE SAME PATH AS HELENE. THE WEST COAST PORT UNION ALSO TALKING STRIKE. WAR SPREADING AROUND THE WORLD. AND NOW THIS. ALL AS WE SPRINT TOWARDS MAYBE THE MOST CONTENTIOUS AND CRITICAL ELECTION IN OUR NATIONS HISTORY. THIS WILL LIKELY BE AN OCTOBER TO REMEMBER AS THE STAGE IS SET FOR A MASSIVE BLACK SWAN EVENT TO OCCUR. ARE YOU READY? ARE YOU PREPARED?
U.S. East and Gulf Coast port workers are set to go on strike at midnight on Monday with no talks currently scheduled to head off a stoppage threatening to halt container traffic from Maine to Texas and cost the economy as much as $5 billion a day.
The labor contract between the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) union representing 45,000 port workers and the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX) employer group expires late Monday, with negotiations at an impasse over pay.
A port strike will go ahead starting Tuesday at 12:01 a.m. ET, the ILA said on Sunday. The USMX “refuses to address a half-century of wage subjugation,” the union said in a statement on Sunday.
If union members do walk off the job, it would be the first coast-wide ILA strike since 1977, affecting ports that handle about half of the nation’s ocean shipping.
No negotiations are taking place and none are planned before the Monday deadline, a person familiar with the matter said on condition of anonymity as the matter is a sensitive one.
The union has previously said the strike would not impact military cargo shipments or cruise ship traffic.
But a strike could stop the flow of everything from food to automobiles at major ports, potentially jeopardizing jobs and stoking inflation weeks ahead of the U.S. presidential election.
Business Roundtable, which represents major U.S. business leaders, said it was “deeply concerned about the potential strike at the East Coast and Gulf Coast ports.”
The group warned a labor stoppage could cost the economy billions of dollars daily, hurting businesses, workers and consumers across the country. “We urge both sides to come to an agreement before Monday night’s deadline.”
A short strike could have a limited economic impact given many companies have imported extra goods ahead of a possible work stoppage or shifted more shipments to West Coast ports. But a strike that continues for weeks could have serious economic impacts.
“These people today don’t know what a strike is,” Harold Daggett, the ILA’s fiery leader, said in a recent video post. “I’ll cripple you. I will cripple you.”
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