Top Biden administration officials are meeting Friday afternoon with port operators ahead of a possible strike at East and Gulf coast ports, with the union contract expiring after Monday.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg speaks before President Joe Biden during a visit to the U.A. Local 190 Training Center in Ann Arbor, Mich., Friday, Sept. 6, 2024. WASHINGTON — Top Biden administration officials were meeting Friday with port operators ahead of a possible strike at East and Gulf coast ports, with a union contract expiring after Monday.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su, and Lael Brainard, director of the White House National Economic Council, told members of the United States Maritime Alliance, Ltd. that they should be at the table with the union and negotiating ahead of the contract expiring. That’s according to a White House official who insisted on anonymity to discuss an ongoing meeting.
President Joe Biden’s team does not see a potential strike as necessarily disruptive to the economy, since retail inventories have increased as companies planned for the contract expiring. The federal government also has additional tools to monitor supply chains that it lacked during the pandemic when wait times at ports and higher shipping costs pushed up inflation.
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