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ILWU calls slowdown accusations at Seattle, Tacoma ‘bold-faced lie’
Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor |
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union late Monday rejected accusations that they were engaging in a concerted effort to slow down cargo-handling operations at the ports of Seattle and Tacoma, saying waterfront employers’ charges are a “bold-faced lie.”
Longshore labor
Apparel, footwear importers urge FMC to push for ILWU-PMA deal
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
The American Apparel & Footwear Association urged the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission and the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to press negotiators to agree on a West Coast longshore labor contract to help end “untenable congestion” at the ports.
Longshore labor
Waterfront employers accuse ILWU of slowdowns in Seattle, Tacoma
Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor |
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union is engaging in work slowdown actions at the ports of Seattle and Tacoma, waterfront employers say, raising fears that the tactics could spread to Los Angeles-Long Beach, the nation’s largest container gateway.
Longshore labor
ILA’s Daggett: Waterfront Commission is ‘evil empire’
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
International Longshoremen’s Association President Harold Daggett called the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor an “evil empire,” and said the bistate crime watchdog agency should be abolished.
Longshore labor
Business groups renew appeal for ILWU-PMA deal
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
More than 100 national, state and local organizations have signed a letter urging a speedy agreement on a West Coast port labor contract “to allay growing concerns of thousands of businesses” that rely on the ports.
Longshore labor
LA-Long Beach congestion pushing up outbound spot truck rates
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Congestion-caused delays at the largest U.S. port complex are pushing up outbound spot market truck rates from the Los Angeles-Long Beach market to inland distribution points.
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Weekly wrap-up: ILWU-PMA talks, 2M’s FMC approval and intermodal issues
Grace M. Lavigne, Associate Web Editor |
Events on the U.S. West Coast dominated on JOC.com this past week, as labor negotiations between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association could finally be heating up. Five of the Top 10 stories on JOC.com in the past week focused on the issue.
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'Tedious' ILWU inspections contributing to LA-Long Beach congestion
Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor |
Dockworkers in Los Angeles-Long Beach are making the already terrible congestion problems at marine terminals insufferable by pulling trucks over and requiring inspections that reportedly go far beyond the normal safety procedures.
Longshore labor
Retailers: Unsettled ILWU contract has ‘big impact’
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
Dragged-out negotiations for a new West Coast longshore contract are adding to congestion and delays at ports and threatening supply chains for holiday-season goods, the National Retailers Federation warned.
Longshore labor
Ex-ILA official gets 18 months for extortion
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
A former president of International Longshoremen’s Association 1235 in Newark, New Jersey, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for extorting his members for “Christmas tribute” payments to the Genovese crime family.
Longshore labor
Common themes and differences in ILWU and ILA negotiations
Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor |
Retailers today bemoan the fact that the ILWU and Pacific Maritime Association negotiations have dragged on for more than four months still without conclusion. But they may not recall that it took the ILA and the U.S. Maritime Alliance 13 months to finalize their current contract in April 2013.
Longshore labor
Strike threat low despite lack of West Coast longshore contract, Scioscia says
Grace M. Lavigne, Associate Web Editor |
Negotiations between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association will likely conclude without a strike or lockout, former Maersk port executive Tony Scioscia told the IANA conference in Long Beach this week.
Longshore labor
Mum ILWU, PMA negotiators likely dealing with productivity issues
Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor |
Having reached a tentative agreement Aug. 26 on the crucial issue of medical benefits, negotiators for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association have spent the past month discussing operational issues at marine terminals.
Longshore labor
ILA, NY-NJ employers to appeal waterfront case
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
New York-New Jersey port employers and the International Longshoremen’s Association said they will appeal a federal judge’s dismissal of their lawsuit challenging new hiring rules set by the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor.
Longshore labor
Labor uncertainty cuts into West Coast volumes
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
Ports on the U.S. East and Gulf coasts and in British Columbia continue to benefit from unsettled longshore labor negotiations on the U.S. West Coast.
Longshore labor
North American ports
ILWU's little leverage over grain companies sets contracts apart
Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor |
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union’s two-year battle with grain terminals over a new contract in the Pacific Northwest highlights the major differences between contract negotiations in the bulk cargo sector and negotiations in the container shipping industry.
Longshore labor
Weekly wrap-up: ILWU ratifies deal with PNW grain handlers, reaches tentative agreement on health benefits with PMA
Harry G. Butler, Senior Editor, Digital |
Members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union ratified a new collective bargaining agreement with grain handlers in the Pacific Northwest, ending a two-year battle between the two parties.
Longshore labor
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ILWU threat to holiday season shipments diminishes
Peter Tirschwell |
Despite the lack of a new West Coast labor contract two months after the expiration of the last agreement, the threat of work stoppages to peak-season merchandise is rapidly receding, according to a retail industry consultant.
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Court dismisses NYSA-ILA lawsuit against Waterfront Commission over hiring
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
A federal judge has dismissed an employer-union lawsuit challenging the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor’s new rules for hiring dockworkers in the Port of New York and New Jersey.
Longshore labor
ILWU-PMA health benefits agreement another sign of peaceful talks
Peter Tirschwell |
The agreement reached late Tuesday pertaining to health care was the latest and clearest indication that the 2014 West Coast longshore labor negotiations are playing out in a way no one expected: They are peaceful.
Longshore labor
North American ports
ILWU, PMA reach tentative agreement on health benefits
JOC Team |
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association released a joint statement on Tuesday saying they have come together on at least one topic, and a highly contentious one at that: health benefits.
Longshore labor
North American ports
ILWU ratifies four-year grain contract
JOC Team |
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union ratified a new collective bargaining agreement with grain handlers in the Pacific Northwest, spelling the end to an embittered, two-year battle between the two parties and allowing the union to focus on still-unresolved coastwide container talks.
Longshore labor
Retailers warn of rising risks of lack of ILWU contract
Mark Szakonyi, Executive Editor |
Retailers are growing anxious over the continuing lack of a U.S. West Coast longshore labor agreement.
Longshore labor
Portland to end reefer agreement with ILWU
JOC Team |
The Port of Portland, Oregon, on Aug. 22 announced the cancellation of a contract covering two reefer jobs with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, citing dips in productivity at its Terminal 6 facility.
Longshore labor
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ILA disputes Baltimore arbitrator’s award
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
The largest International Longshoremen’s Association local in Baltimore is disputing an arbitrator’s ruling that the union is liable for $3.86 million in damages for a strike that idled the port for three days last October.
Longshore labor
Anti-Israeli protest morphs into ILWU action at Oakland
Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor |
The SSA Marine terminal at the Port of Oakland remained closed Tuesday because longshoremen refused to report to their jobs, even though the anti-Israel demonstrators who had blocked entrance to the facility on Sunday were long gone.
Longshore labor
Anti-Israel protest interrupts work on ship in Oakland
Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor |
Demonstrators protesting events in Gaza idled a Zim Integrated Shipping Services vessel at the Port of Oakland on Sunday, and the ship could not be worked on the day shift Monday because the terminal operator could not secure enough labor.
Longshore labor
ILWU, PNW grain terminals reach tentative agreement
Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor |
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union late Monday, Aug. 11, reached a tentative agreement with grain terminals in the Pacific Northwest, potentially ending two years of lockouts, picketing and interruptions in U.S. grain exports.
Longshore labor
Unions accuse Panama Canal of unsafe working conditions [Updated]
Grace M. Lavigne, Associate Web Editor |
The International Transport Workers’ Federation and four Panamanian unions have accused the Panama Canal Authority of ongoing failure to provide decent pay and safe working conditions for more than 9,000 affiliated maritime workers in the canal zone.
Longshore labor
International ports
Productivity takes a hit in Portland amid ILWU hard-timing
Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor |
The operator of Portland’s only container terminal charged this week that crane productivity hit a new low of 7.5 moves per hour because International Longshore and Warehouse Union members are stepping up their hard-timing tactics now that there is no longshore contract in effect.
Longshore labor
No federal inspectors for grain terminal in ILWU dispute
Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor |
Longshore labor
PNW terminal presses USDA for inspectors so it can export grain
Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor |
The United Grain export terminal in Vancouver, Washington, which has been picketed by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union since dockworkers were locked out the facility in February 2013, is urging national farm interests to join the company in convincing the U.S. Department of Agriculture to assign inspectors so grain exports can return to normal.
Longshore labor
Progress in PNW grain talks as two parties schedule more meetings
JOC Team |
Negotiations between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Northwest Grain Handlers Association, which represents a half-dozen export facilities in Oregon and Washington, are not concluded, though both parties say weekend bargaining has gone well.
Longshore labor
Despite lack of contract, ILWU talks have been remarkably smooth — so far
Peter Tirschwell |
Even though it now looks like it will be sometime in August before a new agreement between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and employers is in place, no one is panicking and tensions appear low. Why?
Longshore labor
North American ports
ILWU-PMA talks recessed until Aug. 4
Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor |
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union and Pacific Maritime Association have recessed contract negotiations for the coming week so ILWU officers can participate in unrelated contract talks with grain handlers in the Pacific Northwest.
Longshore labor
Washington governor’s move puts pressure on grain terminal in ILWU dispute
Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor |
A year-long contract dispute between United Grain Corp. and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union effectively shut down export operations at the Vancouver, Wash., facility this month following a decision by the governor of Washington to withdraw state trooper escorts for grain inspectors.
Longshore labor
Scheduled events could push ILWU talks into August
Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor |
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union today completed its two-day caucus in San Francisco, and the union will resume contract negotiations with the Pacific Maritime Association on Wednesday.
Longshore labor
ILWU talks will resume on Wednesday after caucus
Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor |
Contract negotiations between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association will resume on Wednesday after a recess Monday and Tuesday for a previously scheduled longshore division caucus.
Longshore labor
Weekly wrap-up for July 19: ILWU talks skew import volumes, Horizon faces debt crisis
Grace M. Lavigne, Associate Web Editor |
While it is obvious that beneficial cargo owners shipped early this year through the West Coast in anticipation of the July 1 deadline for contract negotiations between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and waterfront employers, reports of cargo surges at Canadian and U.S. East Coast ports in May and June indicate retailers were also diverting shipments away from West Coast ports.
Longshore labor
ILWU talks to recess Monday for union caucus
Bill Mongelluzzo, Senior Editor |
Contract negotiations between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association will recess beginning Monday for a previously scheduled union caucus.
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