Yes, because the strike disrupting distribution after a cataphoric hurricane on the east coast and a month before the election was a brilliant PR move.

A tentative agreement was reached "on wages" and extending "the Master Contract until January 15, 2025 to return to the bargaining table to negotiate all other outstanding issues," the ILA and USMX said in a joint statement Thursday evening.

"Effective immediately, all current job actions will cease and all work covered by the Master Contract will resume," the statement read.

"I want to applaud the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) and the United States Maritime Alliance for coming together to reopen the East Coast and Gulf ports. Today's tentative agreement on a record wage and an extension of the collective bargaining process represents critical progress towards a strong contract," President Joe Biden said on the agreement.

And the pressures on not disrupting supply lines particularly because of the additional stresses caused by hurricane relief efforts indeed accelerated what had been a moribund negotiating process.

On a personal note, when I worked a CBTU national convention in Hollywood, FL a few years ago, a Longshoreman local president invited me to a private party in one of their suites. They were very nice people and laid out quite a delicious spread.

Good luck stopping automation now.

There's anti-automation language in the Master Contract already. Maybe the document hasn't reached your troll farm yet.

Why would anyone be proud of "anti automation" or even agree to a "master contract" now?

With every single post you continue to prove you have no earthly understanding of what being an American means and you also lack critical reading skills.

First, what "government kickbacks" could non-government workers get? That's a notion from a command economy controlled by elitists or authoritarians. Congress is the only one who can authorize legislative change, not the President nor Executive Branch.

Second, the workers are getting a record raise in their contract, hardly being weak by any objective measure.

Lastly, here in America, even when we might disagree politically, we do not place our individual needs above those of citizens suffering through no fault of their own when simply by doing our jobs we can assist them. Disrupting the supply lines at this moment is simply untenable when so many people in multiple states are depending upon being able to quickly start rebuilding their lives and towns.

Is the deal everything the union wanted? Of course not, that's why both sides agreed to continue negotiations at minimum through January 2025.

And as it regards the worst ports, that's ownership's fault, isn't it? They've made record profits for years now and failed to reinvest in their own business, which isn't the fault of the union workers. And again, upgrading is a long term issue, not something that can or will be changed in the short term.

It's only an extension to the 15th of Jan, it's not the new master contract.

Like I said they showed themselves to be jerks, and inefficient.

And like I said, you're an anti-American troll who doesn't understand the written word because English isn't your first language. It IS a new contract temporarily rolled into the existent one.

Sounds like you hang around with the Swells. Last time I want to hear you talk about poor workers.

It surprises me not that you know nothing about me because I've been vocal for years about being a union member myself. My job entails working with union locals and their members, so don't make me laugh at your ignorance, troll breath.

Even though I work for a publicly traded company, every single worker in my division belongs to a union, including our CEO.

So I take you insults and wear them as a badge of pride in knowing you continue to prove you're not an American, you know nothing of what it means to be an American and you have no inkling of what makes America what it is outside of your own incessant attempts to divide and demean those completely foreign to you.

As I said, you reveal who you are with every post. I'm only stating the obvious. You're not an American, you're an agitator troll.