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With dockworkers starting a strike Tuesday, causing most of the Port of New York and New Jersey to shut down, the supply chain for a wide array of products imported and exported through the port will be disrupted to some degree.

The Port of New York and New Jersey is one of the largest in the country and the largest on the East Coast, according to the federal Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

Some experts say the strike by the International Longshoremen's Association could disrupt the supply chain and billions of dollars worth of products for weeks or more just before the holiday shopping season kicks off.

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Roughly 4,500 dock workers staff the ports in New York and New Jersey, which include key facilities in Newark, Elizabeth and Staten Island, according to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul. They went on strike after a master contract expired without a replacement on Sept. 30.

Union leadership said it’s particularly worried about the use of automation by the United States Maritime Alliance, or USMX, a group of shipping and port terminal companies, after the use of such technology was found at a port in Mobile, Alabama.

So what are the goods most commonly passing through the ports of New York and New Jersey?

We broke down those numbers, which the bi-state Port Authority of New York and New Jersey listed as current as of 2022. The most-shipped goods through the ports of New Jersey and New York range from furniture, appliances and plastics to vehicles and wood pulp.

More:NJ ports have been slow to modernize. Will they take the leap to control costs?

The bi-state port authority measured the top exports and imports by way of "twenty-foot equivalent unit" or TEU, which is the generic unit of cargo capacity.

Imports into the Port of NY and NJ

Exports out of the Port of NY and NJ

Countries that ship to the Port of NY and NJ

These are the countries that ship the largest volume of goods to the Port of New York and New Jersey, with China far ahead of the others:

What's still moving through the port?

Fuel, such as home heating oil, would not be affected by the strike because it’s brought in by other vessels, Hochul said.

Municipal solid waste operations would not be affected, Hochul said during a Monday press conference in Manhattan, “meaning your garbage will continue to be carted out and disposed of.”

The import and export of road salt, cement, Belgian block, scrap metal, edible oils and orange juice will continue, officials said.

Cruise ships using the port will continue to operate.

Threat of consumer impact weeks away

Jackie Bray, commissioner of the New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services, said Monday that it would be a matter of “weeks, not days,” of striking before any impact would be felt by the average consumer.

Further mitigating the impact on consumers is that many products are already “in warehouses. They’ve been there for a long time,” Bray said.

“There might be a product here or there, but it’s weeks before regular consumers feel it,” she said.

Hochul assured that “people do not need to rush out to the grocery stores and stockpile goods," as they did during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Daniel Munoz covers business, consumer affairs, labor and the economy for NorthJersey.com and The Record.

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Dockworkers at ports from Maine to New Jersey to Texas went on strike Tuesday, for the first time since 1977, in a move that some experts say could disrupt the supply chain and billions of dollars worth of products for weeks or more just before the holiday shopping season kicks off.

The North Jersey-based International Longshoremen’s Association walked off the job, seeking a big increase in pay, as its last contract expired at midnight Tuesday. The workers also oppose automation at the ports, which poses a threat to their jobs.

Striking dockworkers stood at several locations outside the Port of Newark and Port of Elizabeth on Tuesday morning with signs that read "Automation hurts families: ILA stands for job protection." Occasionally someone would drive by honking and holding up a fist in support.

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Union leadership bounced between locations to address the striking workers. A DJ played music at one spot, and strikers availed themselves of several food trucks parked nearby. Doughnuts and pallets of bottled water were also available.

"They've made billions and billions of dollars over the last few years through COVID and everything," Buddy Smith, president of ILA Local 1233, told strikers, referring to the shipping and terminal companies. "We worked. We lost members. We're just asking the companies to bring us along with them."

"Automation and going too far with technology, we just can't afford that," Smith said. "We're putting people out of work."

Jack DaCosta Jr., an ILA strike captain and a general foreman at Columbia Container Services at the port, agreed. "The net revenues of these companies have grown astronomically, from hundreds of millions to billions of dollars, while ILA member wage increases do not cover the cost of inflation," he said.

He also addressed the issue of automation at the ports and the threat to job security. "You got the self-checkout, right?" he said. "A lot of people lost their jobs because of self-checkout."

"You don't want to lose your job to automation," he said.

DaCosta said the ILA was prepared to strike for "as long as it takes."

Shaheen Smith, another longshoreman and ILA strike captain, said technology is fine if it helps dockworkers do their jobs more efficiently, but not if it replaces their jobs. "Robots don't pay taxes," he said. "Robots don't do anything for the community. So it's important for us to keep our jobs because it's part of the ecosystem."

ILA President Harold Daggett addressed striking workers early Tuesday, in a video posted on the union’s Facebook account. “What you’re doing is right,” he said, to cheers. “This is going down in history.”

He told them that in 1977, he went on strike “with the old guys for three months for 80 cents … and it wasn’t nice.”

Daggett said the shipping and terminal companies don’t care about the dockworkers, but the strike will make them care. “Nothing is going to move without us,” he said. “Nothing.”

What did Biden say?

President Joe Biden issued a statement urging the United States Maritime Alliance, or USMX, a group of shipping and port terminal companies also based in North Jersey, "to come to the table and present a fair offer to the workers of the International Longshoremen’s Association that ensures they are paid appropriately in line with their invaluable contributions."

"Ocean carriers have made record profits since the pandemic and in some cases profits grew in excess of 800% compared to their profits prior to the pandemic," Biden said. "Executive compensation has grown in line with those profits and profits have been returned to shareholders at record rates.

"It’s only fair that workers, who put themselves at risk during the pandemic to keep ports open, see a meaningful increase in their wages as well," he said.

Biden has said he will not invoke the Taft-Hartley Act to block the strike. Instead, White House officials encouraged ongoing discussions despite pleas for help from retail, agriculture, commerce, auto care, toy and other groups for months.

Strike hits 36 ports

Leaders at the ILA cut off contract talks in June after learning that a form of automation had been introduced at the Port of Mobile in Alabama, an action they said violated the existing contract.

Last week, the USMX filed an unfair labor practice complaint with the National Labor Relations Board over the ILA’s adamancy that it would not resume contract negotiations.

USMX issued a statement late Monday saying that over the previous 24 hours, the alliance and the union traded counteroffers related to wages. USMX said it increased its offer and also requested an extension of the current contract, since both sides have moved off their previous positions.

However, early Tuesday, dockworkers were out on strike at 36 ports on the East and Gulf coasts, including the Port of New York and New Jersey, which has key facilities in Newark, Elizabeth and Staten Island.

The dockworkers' union leaders are seeking significant pay hikes for their members, saying they deserve a fair share of the profits that shipping and port terminal companies have made as cargo volume remains higher after the demand caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

USMX had said its latest offer would increase wages by nearly 50%, triple employer contributions to employee retirement plans, strengthen health care options, and retain the current contract language around automation and semi-automation.

The strike could cost the economy up to $5 billion a day, upend holiday shopping for millions of Americans and dictate whether many small- and medium-size businesses and farmers turn a profit or lose money this year, experts said.

How does strike affect Port of New York and New Jersey?

At the Port of New York and New Jersey, the strike has caused all activity involving loading and unloading cargo containers and automobiles to stop.

Cruise ships will continue to operate despite the strike.

Fuel, such as home heating oil, and municipal solid waste operations will not be affected.

The import and export of road salt, cement, Belgian block, scrap metal, edible oils and orange juice will continue, officials said.

An estimated 35 ships are expected to enter the port over the next week and would anchor in place, said Rick Cotton, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Container ships with imports bound for Newark, Elizabeth and Staten Island would end up mooring at designated sites in New York Harbor or off the coast while the strike lasts, or simply slow down, drift and loiter to ride out the strike in the Atlantic, officials said.

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For the first time in nearly 50 years, longshoremen on the East and Gulf Coasts went on strike Tuesday, a move that will cut off most trade through some of the busiest U.S. ports and could send a chill through the economy.

Members of the International Longshoremen’s Association union, or I.L.A., which represents roughly 45,000 workers, started setting up pickets after 11th-hour talks failed to avert a work stoppage.

“Nothing’s going to move without us — nothing,” said Harold J. Daggett, the president of the union, addressing picketers outside a port terminal in Elizabeth, N.J., in a video posted early Tuesday to a union Facebook account.

But in a sign that the union and the group representing port employers might be getting closer to a deal, Mr. Daggett told CNBC on Tuesday morning that the union was now seeking raises that add up to 61.5 percent over a six-year contract, down from the 77 percent the union had asked for at the start of negotiations.

The United States Maritime Alliance, which represents port employers, said on Monday that its latest offer had included raises of “nearly 50 percent.” The group declined to comment early Tuesday. In addition to wage increases, the use of new technology in the ports has been a sticking point for the union.

On Tuesday morning, Mr. Daggett’s son, Dennis A. Daggett, who is an I.L.A. executive vice president, was part of a large picket line outside a port terminal in Bayonne, N.J. He said that morale was “phenomenal,” and that the union was going to keep pushing for better wages.

“The raises we had in our previous contract — inflation really ate into them,” he said in an interview, but he declined to say how big an increase the union had asked for in recent talks.

Businesses now face a period of uncertainty. Trade experts say that a short strike would cause little lasting damage but that a weekslong stoppage could lead to shortages, higher prices and even layoffs.

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“When we talk about a two- to three-week strike,” said J. Bruce Chan, a transportation analyst at Stifel, a Wall Street firm, “that’s when the problem starts to get exponentially worse.”

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The prospect of significant economic damage from a strike puts President Biden in a quandary five weeks before national elections. Before the strike, he said he was not going to use a federal labor law, the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act, to force an end to a port shutdown — something President George W. Bush did in 2002. But some labor experts said he might use that power if the strike started to weigh on the economy.

Michael Vigneron, president of the I.L.A.’s Atlantic Coast district, who was also at the Bayonne picket, said he hoped the president would not use the law. “We hope that we have this settled before that,” he said. “That’s the goal here — to get a contract.”

Longshoremen move containers off ships, sort them and put them on trucks or trains, and handle bulk cargo, too. Around three-fifths of the nation’s container shipments go through ports on the East and Gulf Coasts, including the Port of New York and New Jersey, the third busiest in the country, and fast-growing ports in Virginia, Georgia and Texas.

A strike will also stop the shipment of cars and heavy machinery through the Port of Baltimore, where operations were curtailed for most of the spring after a container ship crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

Automakers said that they were monitoring the strike but that it was too early to say how it would hit them.

Cruise ship operations are unaffected by the strike, and military shipments will continue. Rick Cotton, the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, said on Monday that around 100,000 containers would be stored at the port during the strike and that 35 ships arriving over the next week would be anchored offshore.

Strike’s Impact

How the work stoppage could ripple through the economy.

“The stakes are very high,” Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York said at a news conference on Monday. “The potential for disruption is significant.” But she also sought to calm consumers, saying shortages of food and pharmaceutical products were not expected.

For bringing large amounts of goods in and out of the country, there is no practical alternative to ports. And ports cannot operate without longshoremen, giving them strong leverage in labor negotiations.

West Coast ports are open. Longshoremen there belong to a different union and agreed last year on a new contract that includes a significant increase in wages.

Under the contract that expired on Monday, longshoremen on the East and Gulf Coasts earned a top rate of $39 an hour. The I.L.A. had initially sought a $5-an-hour raise in each of the six years of a new agreement, which would add up to 77 percent over the life of the contract. The employers alliance had started negotiations offering raises of $2.50 an hour every year.

The two sides had barely communicated for months before the walkout. But in recent days, the maritime alliance said on Monday, it had “traded counteroffers related to wages” with the I.L.A. and offered to extend the contract.

Dennis Daggett, the I.L.A. official, said focusing on the $39 top wage would be misleading because longshoremen with less than six years of experience earn around half that sum per hour. He said the union was determined to secure higher wages for newer workers in its next contract.

With overtime and shift work, many longshoremen earn well over $100,000 a year, putting them ahead of other workers without a college degree. But they say they have put in far more hours than workers in other jobs earning similar amounts, and do so in often harsh or dangerous conditions.

The high inflation of the last few years has reduced their wages’ purchasing power. And longshoremen contend that they have a right to a slice of the increased profits that their employers — some of which are large global shipping lines — made during the pandemic trade boom in 2021 and 2022.

Knowing that a strike was possible, many companies rushed in merchandise before Tuesday, including most of the durable consumer goods that they intend to sell during the holiday sales period. But even a short strike could hurt importers of perishable goods like fruit.

Daniel J. Barabino, chief operating officer at Top Banana, a fruit distributor based at the Hunts Point Produce Market in the Bronx, N.Y., said a strike could cause him to run out of bananas, his main product, by the end of next week. “It’s going to be everyone in the region, all the banana importers — nobody’s going to have fruit,” he said.

Mr. Barabino added that shipping fruit by air was too costly. And he said he couldn’t make up the shortfall with sales of produce other than bananas. “They pay the coffee bill, maybe the bottled water bill,” he said, “but they’re not paying the electric bill, the rent, the truck leases or employee salaries.”

The I.L.A. last walked out across all East and Gulf Coast ports in 1977, snarling container shipping for more than six weeks. The deal that ended the strike included wage raises well above those proposed by employers, increased contributions to pension plans and took steps to address the I.L.A.’s concern that new technology could cause job losses.

The union is still fighting automation. It broke off talks with the maritime alliance in June, saying a port in Mobile, Ala., was checking trucks using technology that was not authorized under its labor contract. (The technology had been in use since the port opened in 2008, a source familiar with its operations said.)

Under the expired contract, port operators were permitted to use “semi-automated” technology but not equipment “devoid of human interaction.” The alliance said it had offered in recent talks to carry that commitment into a new contract.

On Tuesday, Dennis Daggett was standing outside the most automated terminal in New Jersey, Port Liberty Bayonne, operated by CMA CGM, a large shipping company based in Marseille, France. He said the non-automated container cranes in the Port of New York and New Jersey could be more productive than the semi-automated equipment in Port Liberty. CMA CGM did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Recently, other unions have gotten much of what they asked for in contract negotiations. Labor experts said the I.L.A. was hoping to capitalize on that winning run.

“The union has shown it’s fighting hard,” said HarleyShaiken, a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, who has specialized in labor and trade. “The employers’ association is also well aware that the broader environment is that strikes have delivered for unions in the last year or so.”

Neal E. Boudette contributed reporting.

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EZ Ride, a New Jersey community transportation service, announced that the City of Elizabeth will be honored at its 2024 Annual Recognition Event, taking place on September 26th, 2024, at the Galloping Hill Golf Course in Kenilworth, New Jersey.

EZ Ride says Elizabeth will receive the Gold Award for the Safe Routes to School (SRTS) program, recognizing the city’s commitment to creating safe and accessible routes for students. This achievement highlights Elizabeth's dedication to promoting active transportation and enhancing community well-being.

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Elizabeth will also receive the EVAL Gold Award, recognizing their commitment to promoting the adoption of electric vehicles.

Recognition awards will also be presented to 18 different schools in the city:

Abraham Lincoln School 14 - First Step Award

Mabel G Holmes School 5 - First Step Award

Alexander Hamilton Preparatory Academy - First Step Award

George Washington Academy - Bronze Award

Benjamin Franklin Elementary #13 - Bronze Award

Dr. Orlando Edreira Academy #26 - Gold Award

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Jerome Dunn Academy School 9 - Gold Award

Terence C. Reilly School 7 - Gold Award

Joseph Battin School No.4 - Gold Award

Donald Stewart #51 - Gold Award

William F. Halloran Elementary School # 22 - Gold Award

Chessie Dentley Academy #30 - Gold Award

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