Longshoreman strike resolved

Well it looks like the strike is resolved and the Longshoreman won their fight to keep automation out.

** Trump weighed in last month on the automation issue via his social media platform Truth Social after meeting with Daggett at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, siding with dockworkers.

“I’ve studied automation, and know just about everything there is to know about it. The amount of money saved is nowhere near the distress, hurt, and harm it causes for American Workers, in this case, our Longshoremen,” Trump wrote.

Daggett called Trump’s post the “statement ‘heard round the world.'”**

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Demagoguery from Trump is no surprise.

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We do not know where this begins or ends.

I’ll take it for as long as it lasts.

Port strike averted — and the union credits TIG
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/08/port-strike-avoided-union-credits-trump-for-deal-00197212
Dockworkers and the shipping industry reached a deal Wednesday to avoid a strike that could have wounded the economy and created a major headache for President-elect Donald Trump just days before he took office…

In a separate statement, the head of the dockworkers union, Harold Daggett, heaped praise on TIG for helping smooth the way for a deal, saying TIG — who had criticized industry’s automation plans — “gets full credit.” He cited the president-elect’s public support for the labor group after a meeting late last year.

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