Dockworkers from Maine to Texas go on strike
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Workers began picketing at the Port of Philadelphia shortly after midnight, walking in a circle at a rail crossing outside the port and chanting “No work without a fair contract.”The United States Maritime Alliance , the umbrella group representing the managers of the ports, sought to avert a strike at the last minute late on Monday night – offering a 50% wage hike over six years.
“This is going down in history, what we’re doing here,” he told union members. “They can’t survive too long.”With negotiations at a standstill, the launch of the strike was anticipated. But those dockworkers as well as their counterparts in Canada are unlikely to agree to handle East Coast goods in a show of solidarity with striking union members.
It also could snarl exports from East Coast ports and create traffic jams at ports on the West Coast, where workers are represented by a different union.
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