U.S. Port Labor Talks Turn on Automation Cutting Workers
Automation is taking 40 to 50 percent of the dockworker and shippers jobs in Los Angeles. In an effort to protect jobs, labor negotiations have begun over a new contract that would affect 20,000 dockworkers with West Coast. If there is not a consensus, a strike could cost the U.S. economy up to $2 billion.
See "U.S. Port Labor Talks Turn on Automation Cutting Workers", James Nash, Bloomberg News, September 18, 2014