Trump Backs US Dockworkers Poised to Strike Over Automation (1)

President-elect Donald Trump met with the leaders of the International Longshoremen’s Association on Thursday and voiced support for the dockworkers union that shut East and Gulf coast ports in October and may strike again in just over a month.

“I’ve studied automation, and know just about everything there is to know about it. The amount of money saved is nowhere near the distress, hurt, and harm it causes for American Workers,” Trump said in a social media post Thursday after meeting with President Harold Daggett and his son, Executive Vice President Dennis Daggett.

An ILA strike shut every major container ...