It’s starting to look a lot like hand-to-hand combat in the labor negotiations between West Coast longshore workers and their port employers.
container ships, red-tagging of on-dock equipment that maybe didn’t need to be repaired and inexperienced dock workers showing up for work.Los Angeles
Recently, work disruptions were most severe at the Port of Seattle, where operations shut down on Saturday after the PMA said the longshore workers union refused to dispatch workers to load and unload vessels docked at the berths. The ILWU countered that things were not as dire as they seemed. “Despite what you are hearing from the PMA, West Coast ports are open as we continue to work under our expired collective bargaining agreement,” said Willie Adams, the ILWU international president.
Custom brokers and cargo container movers said the longshore union is tweaking the system to make its point that contract negotiations need to wrap up. “The gangs to unload cargo showing up are not fully staffed,” said one port expert, who asked not to be identified. “An order for 10 people will be placed and only seven show up. They have been sending in casual workers, the lower-skilled workers, to be lashers and a lot of them don’t have the experience.
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