...economist Pearl Imada Iboshi. In ordering the lockout of about 10,500 members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, the Pacific Maritime Association accused the union of disrupting work by understaffing operations and dispatching...
...represents shipping companies and terminal operators, locked out about 10,500 members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union on Sunday, claiming workers had engaged in an illegal slowdown after failing to extend their expired contract. On...
...we went back up again and then shut it down again, we look like a bunch of idiots." International Longshore and Warehouse Union spokesman Steve Stallone said the union would not make any promises as a condition for mediation, adding that the...
...down West Coast ports and done billions of dollars in damage to the economy. After the International Longshore and Warehouse Union rejected the offer, talks broke off indefinitely at about 11:30 p.m. Sunday, said Steve Sugerman, a spokesman...
...Peter Hurtgen, head of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. In exchange, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union agreed to changes in technology and dispute-resolution that the companies wanted. The union agreed to lose about...
...Stevedoring Services of America -- at the Port of Long Beach. But Thursday night, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union provided enough workers to unload ships at the docks in Long Beach, the PMA said. "After a week of withholding...
...The American public is going to pay for it this Christmas." Negotiators with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, representing 10,500 dock workers, blamed shipping lines for the meltdown.
...billion a day and ended only after the president intervened. As the 10,500 members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union went back to work Wednesday evening, they were greeted with stacks of everything from car parts to Christmas presents...
...order that reopened the ports last week after a 10-day lockout. Officials with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union pounced on Friday's delay as evidence the association was scrounging for a case -- and unable to grasp one because...
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