President-elect Trump has weighed in with support for the International Longshoremen’s Association amidst the back-and-forth talks with the U.S. Maritime Alliance since the parties’ Oct. 3 truce. The temporary deal ended the 3-day East Coast/Gulf ports strike with a 62% pay raise over six years, leaving automation and other matters to hash out before a Jan. 15 deadline. The ILA broke off talks a second time in recent weeks, taking a hard-line stance against automation, specifically USMX proposals to use automated cranes to retrieve and store freight containers once they are ... Log in to view full article.