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The recent strike of nearly 45,000 dockworkers across the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico highlights a significant issue: the aging workforce. With many dockworkers nearing retirement age and fewer younger workers interested in physically demanding jobs, the industry faces a potential crisis in labor supply. As automation becomes increasingly necessary to offset these demographic challenges, unions resist these changes, illustrating a collision of traditional labor dynamics with modernization efforts.
Source: YAHOO