It certainly has been the summer of discontent as it relates to waterfront labor and their employer counterparts. Both the west coast and east coast have seen their share of issues: 1) The International Longshore &...
LABOR PAINS
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US WEST COAST LABOR AGREEMENT REACHED
The International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) reached a tentative contract agreement for dockworkers on the US West Coast. WHEW! That was a tough one, and we can...
STRIVE FOR INDEPENDENCE
AB 5, California's landmark legislation effectively banning independent contractors, may very well go national if President Biden's pick for US Secretary of Labor, Julie Su, is approved by Congress. Ms. Su was the...
LABOR NEGOTIATIONS DRAG ON
It has been a fun week in Oakland. Wednesday morning November 2nd, Local 34 (clerks) picketed outside the terminal gates. Local 10 (crane operators) did not cross the line and eventually went home. The pickets started...
NEWS ON LABOR NEGOTIATIONS
Since negotiations began in late May, there has been relative silence and peace on the subject of the International Longshore & Warehouse Union's (ILWU) contract negotiations with the employer group Pacific...
ILWU CONTRACT EXPIRES
Speaking of the ILWU, the contract expired last night. As expected, the two sides have not reached an agreement and are still negotiating. While the World Socialist Web Site demands rank and file ILWU members call for...
LET’S TALK
The International Longshore Workers Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) began contract negotiations on May 10th. The current contract covering waterfront labor on the entire US west coastwill expire...
LABOR NEGOTIATIONS
At the top of every logistics professional's mind is...what will the International Longshore & Warehouse Union's (ILWU) contract negotiations bring this summer? Slowdowns? Disruptions? Disputes? Surprises?...
29, 18, 4-14
Those numbers are not play calls on a football field. They are the number of ships idle in Los Angeles/Long Beach and Oakland as well as the number of days ships are waiting to berth in Oakland, in that order. The...
COVID & DOCK WORKERS
Everyone using a West Coast gateway has been impacted by the shortage of labor and the resulting congestion. The Los Angeles/Long Beach port complex is routinely short 10% of their needed labor force, and Oakland is...
PRODUCTIVITY MALAISE
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NATIONWIDE WATERFRONT PEACE
The International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU), the labor union representing dockworkers on the US west coast, approved a five-year contract extension last July, stretching their contract out to 2022....