On October 1, members of the International Longshoremen's Association began a strike at 36 ports on the East and Gulf coasts of the US. This marks the first dock workers' work stoppage of this scale since 1977, and is estimated to halt about half of the country's ocean shipping.
An estimated 45,000 workers are on strike right now as I write this. Those workers want wage increases; that much is true. But more than that, they also want sufficient protections in place against automation.
