Lowry: Dockworkers for economic stagnation

Lowry: Dockworkers for economic stagnation

This 2018 photo shows cranes loading and lifting containers at an automated cargo wharf in Qingdao in China’s eastern Shandong province. (Photo STR/AFP via Getty Images) It’s the processing gate that roared.

APM Terminals at the Port of Mobile in Alabama uses a semi-automated gate to process trucks without union labor, and this supposed outrage is one of the reasons the International Longshoremen’s Association went on strike. Never mind that the gate has been in operation for years, and is a more efficient and safer way to check and admit trucks.

The strike, affecting ports on the East Coast and in […]

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