President-elect Trump expressed his support for dockworkers' pushback against automation at U.S. ports this week, and his transition team is set to meet with port employers' representatives amid a ...

The head of the dockworkers union praised President-elect Trump for his support amid contract negotiations with port operators, particularly on the issue of automation. The International ...

Meanwhile, President-elect Donald Trump has publicly aligned with the dockworkers, warning against the human cost of automation. After meeting Daggett at his Mar-a-Lago estate, Trump stated on ...

They reached a tentative agreement back in October that included a 62% pay raise for East and Gulf coast dockworkers, but left out the most bitter part of the dispute: automation. Talks broke ...

Longshoremen are trying to prevent the adoption of tech that could eliminate jobs. That transition has been underway in other countries.

If the standoff sounds familiar, it’s because the same dockworkers ... Trump also asserted that he knows “just about everything there is to know about’’ automation.

ECONOMIST WARNS THAT AMAZON, STARBUCKS STRIKES COULD ‘BACKFIRE’ President-elect Trump expressed his support for dockworkers' pushback against automation at U.S. ports last month after he met ...

A major East Coast dockworkers’ union ... “I’ve studied automation, and know just about everything there is to know about it,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post later that day.

Trump has already weighed in for ... There’s little consensus on whether automation improves efficiency at ports – or hurts dockworkers. In 2023, researchers at the Center for Innovation ...