Some 45K US dockworkers ended their 3-day strike Thursday following an International Longshoremen's Association (ILA)-US Maritime Alliance (USMX) deal.
An ILA-USMX joint statement ending the three-day strike tentatively agreed on key issues like wages and held off others like automation for further talks.
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Let not Thursday's tentative agreement lull us into believing that the US's ports problem is solved. The issue at the heart of the dispute, automation, remains. It is an existential threat to well-paid workers and the strike was merely the opening salvo and the agreement merely bought time.