More than 45,000 dockworkers from Texas up to Maine are on strike. That includes workers at Georgia’s Port of Savannah.
Members of the International Longshoremen’s Association are demanding higher pay and job protection from automation by the shipping companies that employ them. The strike went into effect on Tuesday night at midnight and no negotiations have been made.
On Thursday’s edition of “Closer Look,” John Haber, the strategic channel partner at Transportation Insight, talked with show host Rose Scott about how the strike could impact the economy and disrupt the supply chain.
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