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Dockworkers strike averted as shipping companies reach agreement

The threat of a strike at East and Gulf Coast ports ended when the dockworkers union and the shipping companies reached a tentative contract deal that appears to allow for some use of automation.

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Andrea Hsu is NPR's labor and workplace correspondent.