{"id":10402,"date":"2024-09-10T18:56:03","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T18:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/u-s-port-talks-kick-off-in-effort-to-avoid-strike\/"},"modified":"2024-09-10T18:59:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T18:59:35","slug":"u-s-port-talks-kick-off-in-effort-to-avoid-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/u-s-port-talks-kick-off-in-effort-to-avoid-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Port Talks Kick Off in Effort to Avoid Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The union representing East and Gulf coast dockworkers kicked off a two-day meeting on September 4 in New Jersey to discuss wage demands with port employers under the threat of a strike that would disrupt maritime trade gateways from Houston to Boston.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Negotiations on a labour contract covering six of the 10 busiest U.S. ports have stalled since June, when the International Longshoremen\u2019s Association called off high-level wage talks with the United States Maritime Alliance, a group known as USMX that represents ocean carriers and terminal operators.<\/p>\n<p>About 45,000 workers and three dozen ports in total could be affected in the event of a strike. And with less than a month before the September 30 deadline, U.S. retailers are renewing their plea to the White House to help break the impasse.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in an <a href=\"https:\/\/ciffa.apms5.com\/anywhere\/m?s=ciffa&amp;m=s_b4f17d27-aa42-4788-8fba-dcdee4dd9026&amp;u=e1jq4wvfdtfm8dhg6n1k4hj45n2mad255mu36ha25n13ada35mt3jc1m6rtm8cj370uk8&amp;r2=d1u78w3k78qjyxvqewq78x3ecnvq6bk3dxpjyrbjehmp6v35ecqqawtde1qq4x1dehgpruvk5nh6atv9dr&amp;n=12\">article from Transport Topics<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The union representing East and Gulf coast dockworkers kicked off a two-day meeting on September 4 in New Jersey to discuss wage demands with port employers under the threat of a strike that would disrupt maritime trade gateways from Houston to Boston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":10397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[1290],"types-de-nouvelles":[],"class_list":["post-10402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-freight-news","tag-international-longshoremens-association-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10403,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10402\/revisions\/10403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10402"},{"taxonomy":"types-de-nouvelles","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types-de-nouvelles?post=10402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}