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And what would you do with a spare 25 Billion Euros . Thats the question facing the irish Government Today as it delivers its budget following a huge Tax Windfall from Tech Firms. Live from london, this is business today. Im lukwesa burak. We start in the us where in the last 30 minutes tens of thousands of East And Gulf Coast Port workers have started striking for the first time in nearly 50 years. This comes after the international longshoremen s association and the us Maritime Alliance were unable to reach an agreement on the terms of their contract. The strikes will halt trade in a wide range of goods and disrupt the Countrys Economy just as we enter the final weeks before the president ial election. Our North America Business correspondent Ritika Gupt the two major sticking points between international longshoreman ....
The two major sticking points between the international longshoremen S Association and us Maritime Alliance are wages and automation. Workers are unhappy with the current contract, which spanned the pandemic, when Dock Workers stayed on the job and endured months of soaring inflation on automation, the Union Boss has been warning Dock Workers that their jobs could be replaced by machines. In response, the us Maritime Alliance has said its offering to keep the current ban on fully automated equipment. A strike could cost the us economy 5 Billion a day, according to Jp Morgan analysts. A range of Goods Flow through the East And Gulf coast ports, everything from raw materials and pharmaceuticals to clothes and toys, with the ports accounting for more than half of containerised imports. While consumers may not feel the impact of the strikes right away, if it extends for weeks, it could lead to shortages and higher prices ahead of the pres ....
0ur Correspondent Michelle Fleury is at the Port Of Newark in newjersey. Tell us what s going on there and all along the coast. We know the strike is about wages and automation, what s going on with the talks . Right now theres not much going on on on the docks, normally you might see some of the grains over their moving, containers being loaded, and off loaded from giant containerships, but all of that stopped at midnight last night. That is when the Master Contract between the union workers and the us Maritime Alliance expired, and the fight over wages and automation continues to rage and there is little agreement between them on this issue. So right now we are one of the Picket Lines here in newjersey, where workers have gathered short while ago, they stood in a long line singing, no automation, no automation. And we ve heard from the White House in the last few hours ....