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Dockworkers are on strike for a third day on the East Coast and Gulf Coast. One of their demands – a complete ban on automation. Their union wants to make sure humans are moving shipping containers, not machines. NPR’s Andrea Hsu reports.
ANDREA HSU, BYLINE: I was at the Port of Baltimore the other night when midnight struck and dockworkers started forming a picket line.(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)UNIDENTIFIED DOCKWORKER #1: Let’s get it, baby. Shut the [expletive] down.UNIDENTIFIED DOCKWORKER #2: Shut it down.UNIDENTIFIED DOCKWORKER #3: Shut it down.UNIDENTIFIED DOCKWORKER #1: (Chanting) What are we going to do?UNIDENTIFIED GROUP […]
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