In need for speed 🏁

🇺🇲 Tom Cruise’s not in this one, we’re afraid… This news is about labor negotiations between the Pacific Maritime Association and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, which have been stalled for 10 months (!) – union members have been working without a contract for eight months… 

📃 With that in mind, over 200 national and state agricultural and business organizations wrote to President Biden urging the administration to work with the two parties to reach a new agreement and ensure there is no disruption of port operations and cargo fluidity: West Coast ports are essential because the US agriculture's largest international markets are in the Asia Pacific – time and speed are obviously of the essence here.