US Dockworkers to Restart Talks With Jobs-for-Automation Offer

A US dockworkers’ union and their employer group will meet in New Jersey on Tuesday with just over a week to hammer out a deal on a new labor contract or risk halting roughly half of all the country’s container volumes.

A strike that would shut every major US East and Gulf coast port is all but certain if the two sides can’t clear the highest hurdles before a Jan. 15 deadline — or agree on another extension.

In early October, the International Longshoremen’s Association reached a tentative deal with ocean carriers and terminal operators on a 62% wage increase ...