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Businesses Urge ILA-USMX to Resume Talks

Some 270 business organizations, in a letter asked the International Longshoremen’s Association and the U.S. Maritime Alliance Ltd. to resume contract talks in hopes of avoiding another strike at the 36 ports on the East and Gulf coasts.The two sides were to have met four times during the week of Nov. 11, but dock workers broke off talks when USMX included wording about automation at the ports – a key ... [+]