The New York shipping industry and the agency charged with fighting corruption on the docks are clashing over a recruitment drive to bring military veterans to work in high-paying jobs in New York Harbor.

Facing pressure to root out nepotism and hire more minority dock workers, the New York Shipping Association—an umbrella group for shipping industry employers—and the docks' union, the International Longshoremen's Association, came up with a plan last year to make veterans more than half of its new hires.

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