Opinion: Why the dockworker strike was really an aging-workforce issue

Port strike’s perfect storm: An aging workforce, automation and the next-generation labor crisis.

Dr. Joseph Coughlin, MIT CTL Senior Research Scientist and Director of the MIT AgeLab, writes in MarketWatch about how the strike was about more than the fragility of supply chains, markets and the economics of global trade. "It was a high-profile example of the converging impacts of an aging workforce, how the next-generation workforce views work and automation."

And that’s not going away. Read the full article here.