New Progress in Strike in US East: Trade Union Announces Strike Plan, Scheduled to Start in Early Morning of October 1

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2024-09-06 18:14

Dock union issues toughest warning

According to the latest information, on September 5, local time, the two-day salary of ILA, the US East Dock UnionStandards Congress Ends, Delegatesunanimous support for ILA union presidentHarold J. Daggett's strike call--That is, if a new agreement cannot be reached with the US Maritime Union by then, a large-scale strike will be held at 12:01 a.m. local time on October 1, 2024 at the ports on the east coast of the United States and the US Gulf!

The union representatives unanimously approved the strike.

Nearly 300 International Dockworkers Association (ILA) salary negotiators attended the meeting, which reviewed the union's main contract request to its employer, the US Maritime Union (USMX), and discussed the strike action to be implemented.

Notably, ILA Executive Vice President Dennis A.DaggettA strike mobilization plan for the union has been drawn upIf no new agreement is reached before the current six-year agreement expires on September 30, the plan will take effect.

ILA PresidentHarold J. Daggett"Brothers and sisters, if we don't have a new master contract to replace the current contract that expires three weeks and four days from today, it will be a major event," he said to the salary standard representatives attending the meeting."

"If we have to take to the streets at 00:01 am on October 1, 2024 (Tuesday), we have to be ready for it."

Harold J. DaggettA video uploaded to the union's website warned: "Unions will definitely take to the streets on October 1."

“The ILA most definitely will hit the streets on October 1st”.

Harold J. DaggettReaffirms the requirement not to use automated or semi-automated terminals along the eastern United States and Gulf Coast, andHints will try to get West Coast colleagues to join strike action.

In a recent advisory to customers, shipping company Maersk warned that even a week-long shutdown could take place in the event of a total shutdown.It will take four to six weeks to recover, and the massive backlog and delays will intensify every day.

Experts at Sea-Intelligence, a Danish container shipping analysis firm, said that for every day of strike, it is likely to take at least four or five days to "clean up" to get back to normal.

According to Sea-Intelligence data, a week-long strike on October 1 will cause severe congestion problems until mid-November, while a two-week strike will mean that the port will not resume normal operations until 2025.

And what's worse,In Canada, a union representing port workers in British Columbia said its members voted overwhelmingly to strike if necessary in a labor dispute with port employers.

ILA president plans to form 'global alliance' to challenge shipping companies

The radical Harold J. Daggett also intends to challenge all major shipping companies by forming a global "super alliance.

Belligerent US International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) president Harold Daggett said, he intends to take on all the major carriers by forming a global ‘mega-union’.

"I will form an alliance with every workers' union in the world," he declared."

"We're going to have unions from around the world meeting in Portugal, we're going to have the International Dockworkers Council (IDC) come and I'm going to get all the seafarers who manage the ships to come."

Harold J.'s Daggett plan was largely driven by the threat of job losses from terminal automation.

Chairman of the American East Terminal Trade UnionHarold J. Daggett

"In today's world, there are three big companies that want to push automation on everyone... the only way we can fight this is to form this alliance," he said."

"In the case of a company like Maersk, let's say it wants to build a fully automated terminal in Chile. If it does happen, this alliance will come into play and we will shut down Maersk's operations around the world."

Of course, although the ILA union has previously expressed its displeasure with Maersk over "APM's Terminals use of the 'Auto Gate' IT system for truck registration at the Port of Mobile, Alabama," Maersk is not the only shipping company the union is concerned about.

"We're going to shut them down all over the world and put them out of business… if they think they're going to keep putting in fully automated terminals and knocking out jobs that dockers have been working on for 200 years.

Harold J. Daggett added: "They don't need us anymore, they want to push for unmanned automation of the docks and get rid of us. I will never allow that. We will build alliances, and we will show businesses that 'we have the decision, not you '."

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