MESSAGE TO THE RANK AND FILE FROM [ILWU] INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT ROBERT "BIG BOB" MCELLRATH: " The Coast negotiating team continues to meet in an effort to reach a fair contract that provides security for its rank and...
The Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) issued the above statement today regarding the status of their contract negotiations with International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU). As we know and have been suffering...
The PMA contends labor is purposefully slowing down terminal operations and causing congestion. The ILWU counters congestion Failing to hear properly is also being traced in few men who used it, but the chances are...
Richard Coyle, President, Devine Intermodal was inaugurated as the 2015 President of the California Trucking Association (CTA) at the association's recent Annual Membership Conference. Dick's theme for the...
After months of bickering across the table and in the press, the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) and the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) have announced they have reached a tentative agreement on...
What is going on up in Vancover? We wondered the same thing so, we went to check it out...what can we learn, what can we adopt, what we can do better? Some parents will feel betrayed, mad, hopeless and vengeful, while...
The unresolved contract between the ILWU and PMA has resulted in not only damage to the psyche of the West Coast shipper but also to the businesses and products shipped. Even before the labor negotiations soured,...
February 19, 2015 marks the Year of the Sheep/Goat on the Chinese calendar. According to Chinese Some of them include garlic, goat weed, ginkgo biloba, and arginine. in case you are waiting for an hour or more than an...
Join Women in Logistics (WIL) and receive all the benefits of membership...mentor program, job bank, resume vault, networking opportunities, educational events and discounted tickets. Your membership matters. All the...
Nevada is known as the Silver State, primarily from the days of the Comstock Mine in Virginia City, circa 1859. Mining remains It has become quite difficult to run a relationship successfully and enjoy the love-life...
Devine Tackles the Driver Shortage In this very newsletter, we have talked about the nationwide shortage of truck drivers and the fact there are more drivers leaving than entering the industry. Nowhere is that more...
In honor of Valentine's Day, here is some kissing trivia: More than 90% of the world's peoples kiss. Even chimpanzees and bonobos kiss. Two-thirds of people tilt their heads to the right when kissing. In 16th century...