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Giannis Antetokounmpo voices major complaint for NBABy JOSH BOAK WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday voiced his support for the dockworkers union before their contract expires next month at Eastern and Gulf Coast ports, saying that any further “automation” of the ports would harm workers. Related Articles National Politics | Will Kamala Harris run for California governor in 2026? The question is already swirling National Politics | Biden says healthy women help US prosperity as he highlights White House initiative on their health National Politics | Senate begins final push to expand Social Security benefits for millions of people National Politics | Trump taps immigration hard-liner Kari Lake as head of Voice of America National Politics | Trump extends unprecedented invites to China’s Xi and other world leaders for his inauguration The incoming president posted on social media that he met Harold Daggett, the president of the International Longshoreman’s Association, and Dennis Daggett, the union’s executive vice president. “I’ve studied automation, and know just about everything there is to know about it,” Trump posted. “The amount of money saved is nowhere near the distress, hurt, and harm it causes for American Workers, in this case, our Longshoremen. Foreign companies have made a fortune in the U.S. by giving them access to our markets. They shouldn’t be looking for every last penny knowing how many families are hurt.” The International Longshoremen’s Association has until Jan. 15 to negotiate a new contract with the U.S. Maritime Alliance, which represents ports and shipping companies. At the heart of the dispute is whether ports can install automated gates, cranes and container-moving trucks that could make it faster to unload and load ships. The union argues that automation would lead to fewer jobs, even though higher levels of productivity could do more to boost the salaries of remaining workers. The Maritime Alliance said in a statement that the contract goes beyond ports to “supporting American consumers and giving American businesses access to the global marketplace – from farmers, to manufacturers, to small businesses, and innovative start-ups looking for new markets to sell their products.” “To achieve this, we need modern technology that is proven to improve worker safety, boost port efficiency, increase port capacity, and strengthen our supply chains,” said the alliance, adding that it looks forward to working with Trump. In October, the union representing 45,000 dockworkers went on strike for three days, raising the risk that a prolonged shutdown could push up inflation by making it difficult to unload container ships and export American products overseas. The issue pits an incoming president who won November’s election on the promise of bringing down prices against commitments to support blue-collar workers along with the kinds of advanced technology that drew him support from Silicon Valley elite such as billionaire Elon Musk. Trump sought to portray the dispute as being between U.S. workers and foreign companies, but advanced ports are also key for staying globally competitive. China is opening a $1.3 billion port in Peru that could accommodate ships too large for the Panama Canal. There is a risk that shippers could move to other ports, which could also lead to job losses. Mexico is constructing a port that is highly automated, while Dubai, Singapore and Rotterdam already have more advanced ports. Instead, Trump said that ports and shipping companies should eschew “machinery, which is expensive, and which will constantly have to be replaced.” “For the great privilege of accessing our markets, these foreign companies should hire our incredible American Workers, instead of laying them off, and sending those profits back to foreign countries,” Trump posted. “It is time to put AMERICA FIRST!”

ALPHARETTA, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 11, 2024-- Agilysys, Inc . (Nasdaq: AGYS), a leading global provider of hospitality software solutions and services, today announced that on December 5, 2024, it increased the size of its Board of Directors from seven to eight members and appointed Lisa Pope to fill this newly created directorship. Ms. Pope is expected to be nominated for election by the Company’s stockholders at its 2025 annual stockholders meeting. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241211960965/en/ Lisa Pope Elected to Agilysys Board of Directors (Photo: Business Wire) Ms. Pope currently serves as President of Epicor, where she successfully led the global enterprise software company’s transition from a traditional on-premises software license operation to a cloud-first, subscription-based SaaS company, driving growth through both direct and indirect channels. Epicor serves more than 23,000 customers in 150 countries through a workforce of 4,600 personnel located in 34 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Australia, Canada, Mexico and China. Ms. Pope led a similar successful global growth transition to cloud solutions at Infor as Senior Vice President, Global Strategy and Sales, for Infor’s CloudSuite and Value Engineering industry-specific solutions across eight vertical markets, including hospitality. Infor delivers enterprise cloud solutions to more than 60,000 customers across 175 countries. “Lisa is a highly talented SAAS-focused executive with a long history of successfully growing industry-tailored enterprise cloud solutions globally at scale,” said Agilysys Chairman of the Board Michael Kaufman. “Her experience makes Lisa an ideal candidate to help further our Board of Directors’ mission to significantly increase shareholder value in the years to come,” Mr. Kaufman added. Agilysys President, Chief Executive Officer and Board Director Ramesh Srinivasan noted Ms. Pope’s experience shaping go-to-market success in global “land and expand” cloud software models in which the value of initial sales to new customers expands over time through upselling and cross-selling additional solutions on an end-to-end enterprise platform. “Now that we have completed the cloud-native modernization of our end-to-end hospitality enterprise platforms for property management systems (PMS), omnichannel point-of-sale solutions (POS) and food-and-beverage inventory and procurement (F&B I&P) solutions, we are focused on accelerating global growth at scale,” Mr. Srinivasan emphasized. “Lisa is a global enterprise leader with proven experience accelerating new customer wins for companies that similarly have transitioned enterprise solutions to the cloud. Lisa has been instrumental in helping those companies achieve impressive global presence. We also appreciate her background driving customer success and retention to create ‘customer-for-life’ value,” Mr. Srinivasan added. Ms. Pope serves on the Board of Directors for supplier risk management and recovery solutions provider apexanalytix, and previously helped create initial go-to-market plans for behavioral analytics software start-up Pretaa. Her more than 30 years of corporate leadership experience also includes leading go-to-market growth during manufacturing and supply chain solution provider QAD’s transition from on-premises licensed software to cloud-native SaaS as Senior Vice President, Global Sales Strategy. She also was the profit-and-loss owner for QAD’s North America Region. QAD grew revenue to approximately $340 million before being acquired in an approximately $2 billion cash transaction by private equity investment firm Thoma Bravo in 2021. Noting how well her corporate executive experience aligns with growth opportunities facing Agilysys, Ms. Pope commented, “I am energized by the ‘scale in the cloud’ future for Agilysys. The similarities with respect to growth, customer engagement, technology transition and micro-vertical transformation between ‘what’s next’ for Agilysys and the global expansion initiatives I have led for similar technology-forward, scale-up companies make this Board of Directors position a perfect fit – not only with my proven expertise but also with the challenges I find most rewarding. I look forward to collaborating with my Board of Director colleagues and the Agilysys leadership team to scale to the next level.” Ms. Pope was recognized for her customer-centric revenue growth success, ability to strategically lead and scale partnerships, and effective mentorship and women empowerment with the 2022 “Woman of the Year” Stevie Award for Sales and Customer Service, a global annual award honoring customer service, business development and executive sales leadership. She also was named the 2021 Silver Best in Biz Award for Sales Executive of the Year by a panel of judges from the Associated Press, Barron’s , Consumer Affairs, Inc., USA Today and Wired . Ms. Pope holds dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in Economics and in Communications and Media Studies from University of California, Santa Barbara. About Agilysys Agilysys exclusively delivers state-of-the-art software solutions and services that help organizations achieve High Return HospitalityTM by maximizing Return on Experience (ROE) through interactions that make ‘personal’ profitable. Customers around the world use Agilysys Property Management Systems (PMS), Point-of-Sale (POS) solutions, Food & Beverage Inventory and Procurement (I&P) systems and accompanying hospitality ecosystem solutions to consistently delight guests, retain staff and grow margins. The Agilysys 100% hospitality customer base includes branded and independent hotels; multi-amenity resorts; casinos; property, hotel and resort management companies; cruise lines; corporate dining providers; higher education campus dining providers; food service management companies; hospitals; lifestyle communities; senior living facilities; stadiums; and theme parks. www.agilysys.com View source version on businesswire.com : https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241211960965/en/ CONTACT: Media NORAM: Jen Reeves, Agilysys, 770-810-6007,jennifer.reeves@agilysys.com Media Rest-of-World: Alan Edwards/Champion +44 207 030 3818,agilysys@championcomms.com Investors:Jessica Hennessy, Agilysys, 770-810-6116,investorrelations@agilysys.com KEYWORD: GEORGIA UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: SOFTWARE MOBILE/WIRELESS RESTAURANT/BAR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES BUSINESS DATA MANAGEMENT PAYMENTS OTHER TRAVEL TECHNOLOGY LODGING TRAVEL RETAIL SOURCE: Agilysys, Inc. 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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — First it was Canada, then the Panama Canal. Now, Donald Trump again wants Greenland. The president-elect is renewing unsuccessful calls he made during his first term for the U.S. to buy Greenland from Denmark, adding to the list of allied countries with which he’s picking fights even before taking office on Jan. 20. In a Sunday announcement naming his ambassador to Denmark, Trump wrote that, “For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity.” Trump again having designs on Greenland comes after the president-elect suggested over the weekend that the U.S. could retake control of the Panama Canal if something isn’t done to ease rising shipping costs required for using the waterway linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. He’s also been suggesting that Canada become the 51st U.S. state and referred to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as “governor” of the “Great State of Canada.” Stephen Farnsworth, a political science professor at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia, said Trump tweaking friendly countries harkens back to an aggressive style he used during his days in business. “You ask something unreasonable and it’s more likely you can get something less unreasonable,” said Farnsworth, who is also author of the book “Presidential Communication and Character.” Greenland, the world’s largest island, sits between the Atlantic and Arctic oceans. It is 80% covered by an ice sheet and is home to a large U.S. military base. It gained home rule from Denmark in 1979 and its head of government, Múte Bourup Egede, suggested that Trump’s latest calls for U.S. control would be as meaningless as those made in his first term. “Greenland is ours. We are not for sale and will never be for sale,” he said in a statement. “We must not lose our years-long fight for freedom.” Trump canceled a 2019 visit to Denmark after his offer to buy Greenland was rejected by Copenhagen, and ultimately came to nothing. He also suggested Sunday that the U.S. is getting “ripped off” at the Panama Canal. “If the principles, both moral and legal, of this magnanimous gesture of giving are not followed, then we will demand that the Panama Canal be returned to the United States of America, in full, quickly and without question,” he said. Panama President José Raúl Mulino responded in a video that “every square meter of the canal belongs to Panama and will continue to,” but Trump fired back on his social media site, “We’ll see about that!” The president-elect also posted a picture of a U.S. flag planted in the canal zone under the phrase, “Welcome to the United States Canal!” The United States built the canal in the early 1900s but relinquished control to Panama on Dec. 31, 1999, under a treaty signed in 1977 by President Jimmy Carter. The canal depends on reservoirs that were hit by 2023 droughts that forced it to substantially reduce the number of daily slots for crossing ships. With fewer ships, administrators also increased the fees that shippers are charged to reserve slots to use the canal. The Greenland and Panama flareups followed Trump recently posting that “Canadians want Canada to become the 51st State” and offering an image of himself superimposed on a mountaintop surveying surrounding territory next to a Canadian flag. Trudeau suggested that Trump was joking about annexing his country, but the pair met recently at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida to discuss Trump’s threats to impose a 25% tariff on all Canadian goods. “Canada is not going to become part of the United States, but Trump’s comments are more about leveraging what he says to get concessions from Canada by putting Canada off balance, particularly given the precarious current political environment in Canada,” Farnsworth said. “Maybe claim a win on trade concessions, a tighter border or other things.” He said the situation is similar with Greenland. “What Trump wants is a win,” Farnsworth said. “And even if the American flag doesn’t raise over Greenland, Europeans may be more willing to say yes to something else because of the pressure.”

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