Businesses warn of 'coast wide port shutdown' as union strike looms, appeal for Obama intervention
Excerpt:Dec. 18, 2012: A truck driver watches as a freight container, right, is lowered at the Port of Boston. AP As if Superstorm Sandy and the looming fiscal crisis weren't enough, a potential strike by thousands of dock workers from Boston to Houston threatens to shock the economy as early as this weekend. Business groups and state officials in recent days have called on President Obama to intervene, and use emergency powers to "avoid a coast wide port shutdown." They warn it could cost billions, citing estimates that a 10-day port lockout in 2002 cost $1 billion a day -- and caused a major backlog in shipments. Florida Gov. Rick Scott is the latest to enter the fray and call for White House intervention. But a port strike would affect more than the East and Gulf coasts, where all these ports are located.
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| 0 | "Failure to reach an agreement resulting in a coast wide shutdown will have serious economy-wide impacts," those and dozens of other groups wrote to Obama ... |
| -0.365711 | Obama warning of the "devastating" ... |
| -0.158928 | Obama warning of the "devastating" impact a strike would have on his state, where cargo-related activity "generates more than 550,000 direct and indirect jobs." |
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| -0.143893 | He also recalled how, in 2002, "tons of perishable cargo were destroyed" ... |
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| 0.0337522 | "Federal mediators are assisting with the negotiations, and we continue to monitor the situation closely and urge the parties to continue their work at the negotiating table to get a deal done as quickly as possible," White House spokesman Matt Lehrich said ... |
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