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Port Strike Ends

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ABC News

Politics, Daily News, News

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Striking port workers are back on the job after a tentative agreement is reached over wages. A jury in Memphis delivers a mixed verdict for three police officers charged in the beating death of Tyre Nichols. And newly-developed air taxis could be the ticket to cutting down travel time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It's Friday, October 4th, an agreement on the docks after some peer pressure.

0:21.0

We start here. Longshoremen are back on the job after days of striking.

0:27.0

This strike the longer at last could have posed a real threat to the economy into inflation.

0:31.0

The strike is off for now, but the waters are still a bit rough.

0:34.0

We'll help you navigate this deal. There's justice in Memphis.

0:37.5

Tyrene Nichols' death won't go unaccounted for.

0:41.6

The jury reaches a mixed verdict in the fatal beating case of Tyrene Nichols.

0:45.2

And if you've flown to Newark Airport in New Jersey, you know this seems impossible.

0:50.3

You get on one of these electric aircraft and then in seven minutes you land in Manhattan.

0:55.6

Air taxis are almost ready for takeoff and they're coming to an airport near you.

1:03.0

From ABC News, this is Start Here.

1:05.3

I'm Stephen Portnoy.

1:06.7

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1:17.0

Yesterday we were already starting to see the effects of the dock workers strike. Nearly 60 ships were to stand still off the eastern seaboard and Gulf Coast,

1:21.4

and there were expected to be over a hundred ships waiting by this weekend.

1:24.4

We're not just fighting for ourselves.

1:26.4

We're fighting for future generations of HLA members and we're not going to apologize.

1:30.8

It was talked this strike could cost the U.S. economy up to a billion dollars a day

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