“Companies.. we’ll shut them down”
These are crucial hours for the renewal of the contract for 45,000 dockers working in U.S. East Coast ports. Over the
“Companies.. we’ll shut them down”
These are crucial hours for the renewal of the contract for 45,000 dockers working in U.S. East Coast ports. Over the next few days, we will know whether the strike called for by the union on Oct. 1st will be called off or confirmed, but on the pay front, and not only, strong distances remain. ILA President Harold Daggett said that shipping companies have made billions of dollars, especially during the Covid pandemic: “We kept going to keep these companies alive. Mark my words: we’ll shut them down October 1st if we don’t get the kind of wages we deserve.”
