{"id":3476,"date":"2014-12-30T12:44:08","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T18:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/supfrt.com\/news\/?p=3476"},"modified":"2014-12-30T12:44:08","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T18:44:08","slug":"west-coast-ports-conflicts-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/supfrt.com\/news\/2014\/12\/30\/west-coast-ports-conflicts-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"West Coast Ports: Conflicts Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Update<\/a>Per JOC<\/a> – the ‘War of Words’ continues….<\/p>\n

The ILWU president\u00a0challenged ocean carrier executives to become directly involved in contract negotiations in order to end the impasse. The PMA shot back that the ILWU’s statement “only underscores the need” for federal mediation in the negotiations which the employer group called for on Dec. 22.<\/p>\n

So far the negotiations between the ILWU and the Pacific Maritime Association have involved local union representatives and international officers on one side of the so-called Big Table and the PMA\u2019s negotiating team on the other.<\/p>\n

\u201cSure, my counterpart, Jim McKenna, has been involved in negotiations from the start, but all decisions are made by the carriers sitting on PMA\u2019s board of directors. Indirect negotiations won\u2019t get us over the finish line,\u201d McEllrath said [ILWU President].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The PMA responded that the union\u2019s charges are inaccurate.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur board and coast committee members, who represent carriers and terminal operators, have been intimately involved in these negotiations, starting in the months leading up to the contract talks and in the seven months since the talks began,\u201d the employers\u2019 group said Monday.<\/p>\n

Following the PMA’s request for federal mediation in the negotiations, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service reached out to the ILWU to seek its response. The ILWU and PMA must both ask for mediation if FMCS is to become involved in the talks. In its statement on Monday the ILWU was silent on the issue of Federal mediation.<\/p>\n

From JOC<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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It took a week for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union to respond to the Pacific Maritime Association\u2019s request for a federal arbitrator to break the impasse in negotiations that have been going on since May with no resolution \u2014 an idea the union clearly doesn\u2019t like. And when the union finally did respond Monday, ignoring the issue of the mediator and calling for direct negotiations with carriers, it took the PMA 23 minutes to reply.<\/p>\n

And when it did, the gloves came off. If there is one issue that employers know will undercut any possible sympathy the longshoremen would hope to have from the public, it is how much they make.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

From the PMA:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe average full-time ILWU worker currently earns in excess of $147,000, and is eligible for a pension with a maximum annual benefit of nearly $80,000 \u2014 and current proposals would increase these even further,\u201d the PMA said Monday. The average U.S. per capita income was $45,863 in 2013.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

From JOC<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Even though\u00a0the ‘ILWU all along has denied that its members are engaging in work slowdowns’:<\/p>\n

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Vessels on Monday were continuing to back up at anchor at the Port of Oakland and truck turn times were three hours or longer now that the International Longshore and Warehouse Union has chosen the Northern California port as its latest target for work slowdowns on the West Coast.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe turn times in Oakland continue to deteriorate. The minimum turn time per transaction is three hours,\u201d said Richard Coyle, president of Devine Intermodal, a Northern California trucking company.<\/p>\n

Targeted work slowdowns by the ILWU are not new to the West Coast, but they are new to Oakland during the union\u2019s contract negotiations with the Pacific Maritime Association, which remain unresolved after eight months of negotiations that began back in May. The PMA said the union\u2019s slowdown tactics, which are designed to gain leverage in the negotiations, began in late October in the Pacific Northwest and in Los Angeles-Long Beach.<\/p>\n

 <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To continue to get the latest information on the West Coast port situation, keep checking\u00a0Superior Freight’s <\/span>news<\/a> and<\/span> blog posts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Per JOC – the ‘War of Words’ continues…. The ILWU president\u00a0challenged ocean carrier executives to become directly involved in contract negotiations in order to end the impasse. The PMA shot back that the ILWU’s statement “only underscores the need” for federal mediation in the negotiations which the employer group called for on Dec. 22. 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