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Mayors urge Congress to fund Amtrak
WASHINGTON -- A group of mayors urged Congress on Friday to give Amtrak the $1.2 billion it insists it needs to continue full service for the next year, reported the Associated Press. "An adequately funded national passenger rail system is essential for the economy...
U.S. mayors urge full funding of Amtrak
WASHINGTON -- U.S. mayors urged approval of Amtrak's $1.2 billion budget request on Friday, saying that a proposal in Congress to reduce spending on unprofitable long-distance routes would devastate service to dozens of cities and hurt regional transportation...
Opinion: A union wins the global game
OAKLAND, Calif. -- To American unions, globalization is a nefarious force that has wiped out the jobs of millions of well-paid blue-collar workers, reports Steven Greenhouse in the New York Times. But the members of one union have played the global-trading system as...
Longshoremen’s battle repeats history
LOS ANGELES -- Born of a bloody strike and brutal work conditions, the West Coast dockworkers union built itself into one of the best-paid and most powerful trade unions in the nation, according to the Associated Press. Its 10,500 members control the flow of more than...
U.S. port talks break off; focus shifts to govt.
SAN FRANCISCO -- The collapse of talks aimed at reopening U.S. West Coast ports is likely to spur President Bush to seek an order sending union workers back to the docks, ending a lockout that has already caused billions of dollars in damage to the U.S. economy, a...
Truck, rail firms prepare to face deluge at dock lockout’s end
NEW YORK -- As negotiations aimed at resolving the shutdown of West Coast ports continued, truckers, train operators and other transportation officials braced for the massive cleanup that will be needed whenever the docks reopen, Monday's Wall Street Journal reported....
Statement by AFL-CIO S-T Trumka on lockout of Longshoremen
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Since both the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) have agreed to federal mediation on the issue of how new technology is implemented, the PMA should end its lockout today and let the...
Longshore workers mark third day of lockout
VANCOUVER, Wash. -- Dan Walker, a self-described farm boy, knew little about the Port of Vancouver until one snowy night 37 years ago when he arrived on the docks and began his first shift as a longshoreman, The Columbian reported. The lifting of bails, loading of...
Industry asks Bush to end port shutdown
OAKLAND -- Industry groups representing hundreds of businesses called on President Bush yesterday to use his emergency powers to reopen 29 West Coast ports closed in a contract dispute, as the longshoremen's union and port operators eet with a mediator on Thursday,...
Port lockdown woes spread
SAN FRANCISCO -- According to USA Today, the impact of the West Coast ports shutdown is spreading to firms nationwide, threatening an already weak economy. Federal mediators met Thursday with port employers and unions representing 10,500 dockworkers to end the...
