{"id":1943,"date":"2024-12-13T20:02:55","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T20:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=1943"},"modified":"2024-12-13T20:02:55","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T20:02:55","slug":"trump-backs-ila-position-on-automation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=1943","title":{"rendered":"Trump backs ILA position on automation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Trump backs ILA position on automation<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>President-elect Donald J. Trump has come out firmly in support of the ILA union position as its negotiations with port employers association USMX continue to bog down over what the employers call \u201cmodernization\u201d and the union calls automation \u2014 in particular the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/inland-coastal\/ports-terminals\/rail-mounted-gantry-cranes-at-center-of-port-labor-talks-impasse\/\">use of semi-automated rail-mounted gantry cranes (RMGs).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what President-elect Trump said in a social media post yesterday:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignleft is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just finished a meeting with the International Longshoremen\u2019s Association and its President, Harold Daggett, and Executive VP, Dennis Daggett. There has been a lot of discussion having to do with \u201cautomation\u201d on United States docks. I\u2019ve studied automation, and know just about\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TrumpDailyPosts\/status\/1867359572517667187?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 13, 2024<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cJust finished a meeting with the International Longshoremen\u2019s Association and its President, Harold Daggett, and Executive VP, Dennis Daggett. There has been a lot of discussion having to do with \u2018automation\u2019 on United States docks. I\u2019ve studied automation, and know just about everything there is to know about it. The amount of money saved is nowhere near the distress, hurt, and harm it causes for American Workers, in this case, our Longshoremen. Foreign companies have made a fortune in the U.S. by giving them access to our markets. They shouldn\u2019t be looking for every last penny knowing how many families are hurt. They\u2019ve got record profits, and I\u2019d rather these foreign companies spend it on the great men and women on our docks, than machinery, which is expensive, and which will constantly have to be replaced. In the end, there\u2019s no gain for them, and I hope that they will understand how important an issue this is for me. For the great privilege of accessing our markets, these foreign companies should hire our incredible American Workers, instead of laying them off, and sending those profits back to foreign countries. It is time to put AMERICA FIRST!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a response that studiously avoided the use if therm automation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmx.com\/\">USMX <\/a>said this:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe appreciate and value President-elect Trump\u2019s statement on the importance of American ports. It\u2019s clear President-elect Trump, USMX, and the ILA all share the goal of protecting and adding good-paying American jobs at our ports. But this contract goes beyond our ports \u2013 it is about supporting American consumers and giving American businesses access to the global marketplace \u2013 from farmers, to manufacturers, to small businesses, and innovative start-ups looking for new markets to sell their products.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo achieve this, we need modern technology that is proven to improve worker safety, boost port efficiency, increase port capacity, and strengthen our supply chains. ILA members\u2019 compensation increases with the more goods they move \u2013 the greater capacity our ports have and goods that are moved means more money in their pockets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe look forward to working with the President elect and the incoming administration on how our members are working to support the strength and resilience of the U.S. supply chain and making crucial investments that support ILA members and millions of workers and businesses across the entire domestic supply chain, improving efficiency and creating even more high-paying jobs for ILA members.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-january-deadline-looms\">JANUARY DEADLINE LOOMS<\/h4>\n<p>Both sides are bargaining as ILA members work under a temporary extension of their current master contract until Jan. 16, 2025. What happens if no agreement is reached by then remains to be seen. If USMX is looking for some sort of federal government intervention, that might not necessarily go the way it would like. The ILA was swift to praise President-elect Trump\u2019s nomination of Oregon Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer to lead the United States Department of Labor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a member of Congress, Rep. Chavez-DeRemer built a strong pro-worker record protecting their rights to organize,\u201d ILA president Harold J. Daggett wrote President Trump in a November 24 letter in which he said the ILA would urge the Senate to approve the legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Lori-<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/inland-coastal\/ports-terminals\/trump-backs-ila-position-on-automation\/\">Trump backs ILA position on automation<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/\">Marine Log<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Nick Blenkey<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinelog.com\/inland-coastal\/ports-terminals\/trump-backs-ila-position-on-automation\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=trump-backs-ila-position-on-automation\">Go to marinelog<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump backs ILA position on automation President-elect Donald J. Trump has come out firmly in support of the ILA union position as its negotiations with port employers association USMX continue to bog down over what the employers call \u201cmodernization\u201d and the union calls automation \u2014 in particular the use of semi-automated rail-mounted gantry cranes (RMGs). 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