Lots More on Potentially Massive East Coast Port Strikes
Odd Lots27 Sep 2024

Lots More on Potentially Massive East Coast Port Strikes

Look out. Supply chains are back in the news. As soon as next week, workers at all of the ports on the US East Coast could go on strike, crippling trade across a range of industrial and agricultural parts of the economy. So what's at stake? What do the workers want? Is there any prospect of the US government heading it off? On this episode, we speak with Craig Fuller, the founder and CEO of FreightWaves, about what the labor dispute is all about and how it could possibly hammer the economy in the weeks leading up to the presidential election.

Read More: Port Employers Ask NLRB to Force Dockworkers to Bargaining Table

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