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Risk of another US port worker strike looming threat for exporters

In India, the trade union movement is very fragmented and at its weakest since independence. So, the fears of workers disrupting critical activities like port operations are very low

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TNC Rajagopalan

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Last week, trade uncertainties mounted as hostilities in West Asia escalated, and port workers in the south-east and east coasts of the United States (US) went on strike. Towards the weekend, the striking workers decided to get back to work easing the anxieties of Indian exporters but the situation in West Asia remained tense, although there were slim hopes that the main combatants would step back from the brink.
 
Unlike the West Asia crisis that has the potential to hurt the trading interests of all the countries more or less equally, any disruption in the port operations
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