Cross your fingers
By SwizStick • Mar 18th, 2007 • Category: QuickNews, SeafreightThe PMA (Pacific Maritime Association) claims there will be no trouble with union negotiations this year:
McKenna, speaking at the seventh Annual Trans-Pacific Maritime conference in Long Beach, said an agreement was necessary to send a message that the 27 West Coast ports were ready for the next surge in cargo.
Talks during the 2002 contract negotiations broke down and led to an employer lockout of workers that shut down West Coast ports for 11 days, diverted cargo to competing ports and cost the U.S. economy an estimated $15 billion. The Bush administration eventually invoked the Taft-Hartley Act to end the lockout.
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