President-elect Trump backed the dockworkers’ union as it prepares for a strike over automation in mid-January — right before the former president is set to return to the Oval Office.

The head of the dockworkers union praised President-elect Trump for his support amid contract negotiations with port ...

If the standoff sounds familiar, it’s because the same dockworkers — members of the International Longshoremen’s Association — staged a three-day walkout last fall.

Meanwhile, President-elect Donald Trump has publicly aligned with the dockworkers, warning against the human cost of automation. After meeting Daggett at his Mar-a-Lago estate, Trump stated on ...

Even before taking office, President-elect Donald Trump is getting ... after siding with a dockworkers’ union in a dispute with shipping companies over automation. The union’s leader and ...

ECONOMIST WARNS THAT AMAZON, STARBUCKS STRIKES COULD ‘BACKFIRE’ President-elect Trump expressed his support for dockworkers' pushback against automation at U.S. ports last month after he met ...

A major East Coast dockworkers’ union ... “I’ve studied automation, and know just about everything there is to know about it,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post later that day.

If the standoff sounds familiar, it’s because the same dockworkers ... Trump also asserted that he knows “just about everything there is to know about’’ automation.

Trump has already weighed in for ... There’s little consensus on whether automation improves efficiency at ports – or hurts dockworkers. In 2023, researchers at the Center for Innovation ...