October 4, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
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...
October 4, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
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...
October 4, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
SEATTLE — Technology has been marching into West Coast ports at a much slower pace than in the rest of the world, and now it is driving the ports’ biggest labor dispute in 30 years, the Seattle Times reported. Engineers who design ports to improve...
October 4, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
SAN FRANCISCO — The longshoremen’s union and port operators held their first talks with a federal mediator today as more businesses complained of economic damage from a labor dispute that has shut 29 West Coast ports, the New York Times reported. The two...
October 3, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines, Teamsters
WASHINGTON — The following is a statement by Teamsters President James P. Hoffa: The Teamsters Union stands shoulder to shoulder with our brothers and sisters in the West Coast Longshore Union (ILWU) who have been locked out. The employer lockout is the labor...
October 3, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
LONG BEACH, Calif. — Until three days ago longshoreman Michael Ponce worked night shifts for 50 hours a week — and about $50,000 a year — operating forklifts or cranes to load and unload cargo from ships docking at one of the nation’s busiest...
October 3, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
SAN FRANCISCO — Union longshoremen geared up for a federal mediation session with West Coast port employers on Thursday in an effort to kick-start stalled contract talks that have led to a management lockout of docks stretching from San Diego to Seattle, Reuters...
October 2, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Standing together in support of 11,000 longshoremen who have been locked out of their jobs at West Coast ports, the Executive Committee of the AFL-CIO’s Transportation Trades Department (TTD) today united behind a strong statement urging...
October 2, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
LOS ANGELES — Long Beach Trucker Travis Steeres may end up driving back to Canada empty-handed if the bananas he’s waiting for spoil before longshoremen return to work at the Port of Long Beach, the Orange County Register reported. The labor dispute that...
October 2, 2002 | AFL-CIO, Headlines
OAKLAND, Calif. — Efforts to start federal mediation for a U.S. port dispute that has stranded mountains of cargo on West Coast docks collapsed Tuesday after the longshoremen’s union stormed out of talks, accusing port employers of bringing...
