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Conley Terminal shut as part of East Coast dockworker strike

By adamg on Tue, 10/01/2024 - 9:47am

WBZ reports on the impact on both businesses that get and ship their goods by sea and on the local workforce:

There are only 160 dockworkers in Boston, but the strike is expected to affect about 12,000 jobs in the area, including tugboat and truck drivers and delivery workers.

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By BobGoblin on Tue, 10/01/2024 - 10:24am.

Hope this doesn't turn into an even bigger story/situation as the weeks go by.
Especially as the election is 35 days away :/

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By Rob on Tue, 10/01/2024 - 11:28am.

I'm not sure it will hit full impact by Nov 5.

It might. A certain right-wing national ticket might decide to play up reports (real or not) of long lines at gas stations and shortages of bulk goods at BJ's and like places - to energize their base of low-information voters.
I wouldn't have thought so, but I already saw an anticipatory-dread FB post from someone in my red-leaning hometown, worriedly asking about lines at the Costco because she's got some family emergency going on today already and doesn't want to have to take time to panic-hoard quantities of goods with all the other panic-hoarders.

I think the Biden response will be measured and incremental. More offers to mediate, more coaxing back to the negotiating table, etc.... He wouldn't press any more strenuous remedies until after the election.

The impact might push some votes TO Harris-Walz. Trump is essentially anti-union. He would happily go union-busting mode if he won and gets into office, and the unions have to know they'd be in a weaker bargaining position if Trump wins.

Personally, thinking of some of the hypothetical delivery-chain issues, I remarked to my wife this morning that we might need to think about if there was anything in the realm of 'shipping-time' items that we were going to order for anyone for Christmas and get it in the pipeline now rather than waiting a few weeks.

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By Rob on Tue, 10/01/2024 - 9:54pm.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/10/01/port-strike-shutdown-...

The White House is standing firmly with the union and has resisted calls to invoke emergency powers and seek an end to the strike. Any move to suspend the union walkout would ease the economic pressure but undermine a key Democratic constituency, forcing the White House into a delicate balancing act.

The Biden administration spent recent days trying to avoid the dilemma, meeting privately in a bid to forge an agreement between the longshoremen and port operators, represented by the U.S. Maritime Alliance (USMX). Once those efforts failed and the strike began Tuesday, President Joe Biden publicly sided with the dockworkers.

Calling on the maritime alliance to cut a fair deal, he highlighted record profits at the shipping lines it represents, along with high executive pay and payouts to shareholders, as well as the shipping and port companies’ multinational ownership.

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By AdamB on Tue, 10/01/2024 - 11:20am.

Can we open up the freight corridor road to bikes and pedestrians during the shutdown so that there's a safer route to the water from points northwest?
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By merlinmurph on Tue, 10/01/2024 - 12:24pm.

Savannah has a huge port. The landing took us right over a shipping terminal on the river. Nothing moving. The ride out of the airport goes thru a busy intersection where you see millions of trucks hauling containers to and fro. Nothing.

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By g on Wed, 10/02/2024 - 12:42am.

It will probably be more informative than the actual bus/truck trial.

If this doesn't improve the 7, what other excuses are there.

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