Dockworkers Bring Ports From Maine to Texas to a Standstill

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🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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A.M. Edition for Oct. 1. Thousands of workers at East Coast and Gulf Coast ports launch a strike overnight. The WSJ’s Paul Berger reports on the ground. Plus, Israel sends troops into Lebanon in the first big incursion in two decades. And, WSJ Heard on the Street columnist Jon Sindreu says engine problems are causing headaches in the aviation industry–especially for Airbus, whose airplane of the future is struggling to take off. Kate Bullivant hosts. Sign up for the WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You let him try violin because you love him and if you love him that much love him enough to make sure he's buckled up and in the back seat find out more at n H.T.S. A.gov slash the right seat
0:11.1	brought to you by the National Highway Safety Administration and the Ad Council.
0:15.0	Doc workers walk off the job shutting down ports from Maine to Texas.
0:24.0	Plus Israel sends troops into Lebanon and why Airbus is struggling to get its most promising
0:30.4	plane off the ground.
0:32.4	There's a lot of money that was based on.
0:35.4	This is a new plane that does things other planes cannot do,
0:39.4	and it will even be able to do more things in the future.
0:42.6	But of course, if it doesn't fly, then you're in trouble.
0:46.1	It's Tuesday, October 1st.
0:48.3	I'm Cape Belavant for the Wall Street Journal
0:50.4	filling in for Luke Vargas.
0:52.2	And here is the AM edition of
0:54.0	what's news the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.
1:02.2	Doc workers across dozens of US ports have walked off the job
1:06.2	shutting down some of the country's main gateways for imports.
1:10.1	It's after midnight and we're officially on strike.
1:13.2	That's Harold Daggot, head of the International Longshoremen Association
1:18.2	speaking to striking workers last night.
1:20.7	I'm so impressed seeing this out in front of Mar right here at night. I pulled up in the
1:27.0	car I can't believe how many people are here it's a good show and we're going to keep this thing going every day in and out. We're going to be on the news
1:36.7	They can't survive too long
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