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ILA and USMX Contract Negotiations: Will There Be an Agreement Soon? (Podcast)
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<em>International Longshoremen's Association and the </em><em>United States Maritime Alliance are involved in a new round of intense labor contract negotiations in Florida.
Longshore labor
Retailers Urge ILA, USMX to Keep Ports Open
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
The National Retail Federation urged the International Longshoremen’s Association and its management counterpart to pledge to continue contract negotiations and avoid a work stoppage that &ldquo
Longshore labor
ILWU Protests Use of Non-Union Labor in Oregon
Bill Mongelluzzo, Associate Editor |
International Longshore and Warehouse Union members this week are picketing a barge facility in southern Oregon to protest a lumber company’s use of non-ILWU labor to load and unload wood produc
Longshore labor
RILA to ILA, USMX: Settle Contract Before Sept. 30
Peter T. Leach, Senior Editor |
The association representing the largest U.S.
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Few Trucking Jobs Added in June
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
The Journal of Commerce Trucking Employment Index edged up one-tenth of a percentage point in June as trucking hiring slowed to a crawl.<br /> <br />
Trucking labor
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LTL Carrier Holland to Hire 450 Drivers
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Higher manufacturing output in the Midwest is translating to more trucking jobs.<br /> <br />
Trucking labor
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Jury Fails to Reach Verdict in Case Against ILWU President
Bill Mongelluzzo, Associate Editor |
A jury in Longview, Wash., failed to reach a verdict at the weekend in a case in which International Longshore and Warehouse Union President Robert McEllrath was charged with attempting to block a tra
Longshore labor
Ruling on Portland Port Reefer Work Delayed
Bill Mongelluzzo, Associate Editor |
The court-appointed master who is handling a jurisdictional dispute between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers at the Port of Portl
Longshore labor
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'Substantial Progress' Reported in ILA Negotiations
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
Negotiators for the International Longshoremen’s Association and United States Maritime Alliance have completed two days of negotiations that yielded what an ILA spokesman said was “substa
Longshore labor
ILA, USMX Resume Contract Talks
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
The International Longshoremen’s Association and United States Maritime Alliance have resumed negotiations on a contract covering 14,500 East and Gulf Coast dockworkers.<br /> <br />
Longshore labor
Swift Pay Incentives Target Truck Driver Retention
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Swift Transportation, the nation's largest truckload carrier, will offer truck drivers quarterly performance-linked bonuses that it says could add up to 6 cents per mile to their pay.<br /> <br />
Trucking News
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Strike Threatens to Shut India's Nehru Port
JOC Staff |
Local political and trade union leaders notified the APM Terminals management in India’s Port of Nhava Sheva (Jawaharlal Nehru) of their decision to strike June 28, an action that could shut dow
Longshore labor
ILA, USMX to Resume Labor Negotiations
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
The International Longshoremen’s Association and United States Maritime Alliance are scheduled to resume negotiations when the ILA’s wage scale committee meets on June 27-29 in Delray Beac
Longshore labor
Dockworkers, Employers Face Off in ILA Talks
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
Negotiations on a new International Longshoremen’s Association contract for East and Gulf Coast dockworkers have taken a negative turn, confronting shippers with tough choices in the weeks ahead
Longshore labor
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ILWU Work Force Expands With Introduction of Technology
Bill Mongelluzzo, Associate Editor |
The words “technology” and “automation” are troubling to longshoremen because they signal a loss of job opportunities.
Longshore labor
Maritime
Panama Canal Pilots Affiliate With ILWU
Bill Mongelluzzo, West Coast Editor |
Delegates to the 35th convention of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union voted unanimously to affiliate with the Panama Canal Pilots Union. <br /> <br />
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Ex-Pier Superintendent Pleads Guilty to Gambling
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
A suspended pier superintendent at Maher Terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey pleaded guilty to a federal charge of illegal bookmaking using Internet sites and 1-800 telephone numbers.<br
Longshore labor
Stevedore Says It’s Not Taking ILA Work
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
A stevedoring company that plans to use workers from the Operating Engineers union to load military ammunition at Charleston said it is not competing for work currently done by International Longshore
Longshore labor
ILA, ILWU Consider Alliance Against Non-Union Forces
Bill Mongelluzzo, Associate Editor |
The nation’s two dock worker unions may take the lead in forming a maritime labor alliance to protect their jurisdiction against encroachment by non-maritime unions or non-union employers.
Longshore labor
Maritime
US Marines’ Plan to Use Non-ILA Labor Upsets Union
Bill Mongelluzzo, Associate Editor |
The International Longshoremen’s Association may have to take on the U.S. Marines to protect its jurisdiction in the Southeast.<br /> <br />
Longshore labor
ILA’s Daggett Says Automation a ‘Hurdle’
Bill Mongelluzzo, Associate Editor |
Waterfront employers’ refusal to guarantee jobs in exchange for automation at East and Gulf Coast ports remains a serious “hurdle” to negotiation of a new International Longshoremen&
Longshore labor
Daggett Defends ILA's Contract Demands
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
International Longshoremen’s Association President Harold Daggett defended the ILA’s negotiating positions and urged management to resume negotiations when the union’s wage scale com
Longshore labor
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LA-Long Beach Operations Normal Despite Contract Dispute
Bill Mongelluzzo, Associate Editor |
Marine terminal operators in Los Angeles and Long Beach reported Friday that cargo-handling was operating normally despite a contract dispute between office clerical workers and employers.<br />
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North American ports
Trucking Employment Rose 3.4 Percent in May
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Trucking employment increased by about 7,300 jobs in May, a 3.4 percent increase from a year ago, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics <a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm"><u>da
Trucking News
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Longshore labor
ILWU Local 63 Clerical Workers Break Off Talks
Bill Mongelluzzo, Associate Editor |
Contract negotiations between office clerical workers and waterfront employers in Southern California broke off after only two days of talks, opening up at least a theoretical possibility of picketing
Longshore labor
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North American ports
USMX Urges ILA to Bargain 'in Good Faith'
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
The top negotiator for East and Gulf Coast waterfront management said International Longshoremen’s Association President Harold Daggett “appears to be less-than-committed to engaging in me
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Daggett Denies Intentional Slowdown by ILA
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
International Longshoremen’s Association President Harold Daggett said long delays at the Port of New York and New Jersey before the Memorial Day holiday weekend were not the result of an intent
Longshore labor
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ILA’s Daggett Says No Deal in Sight
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
International Longshoremen’s Association President Harold Daggett said United States Maritime Alliance has been unwilling to agree to ILA contract demands for job guarantees in exchange for incr
Longshore labor
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NY-NJ Port Authority Seeks Back Rent From Auto Processor
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.panynj.gov/press-room/press-item.cfm?headLine_id=1586"><u>Port Authority of New York and New Jersey</u></a> said it has given the port’s largest auto proc
Longshore labor
Trucking Safety on a Crash Course
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Two years after federal regulators launched the Compliance, Safety and Accountability initiative, the program is still incomplete, lacking a long-promised and crucial component: a new motor carrier sa
Trucking News
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LTL
Longshore labor
West Coast Dockworkers Voice Support for East, Gulf Coast ILA
Bill Mongelluzzo, Associate Editor |
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union issued a statement Tuesday alerting the maritime industry that West Coast dockworkers fully support the International Longshoremen’s Association i
Longshore labor
Number of Active For-Hire Truckers Up 7.5 Percent
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
The number of active for-hire motor carriers in the U.S. rose 7.5 percent from February 2011 through this month, an increase of more than 11,500 trucking companies.<br /> <br />
Trucking labor
Longshore labor
Truck Drivers Better Off Unemployed?
William B. Cassidy, Senior Editor |
Ask a trucking CEO why it’s so hard to hire drivers, and extended unemployment benefits will likely be the first thing past his lips.
Trucking labor
Trucking News
LTL
Longshore labor
ILA Talks Off to Quiet Start
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
After a mighty bluster in the run-up to negotiations for a new contract at East and Gulf Coast ports, the tone and rhetoric from the nation’s second-largest longshore union and its management co
Longshore labor
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ILWU Dockworkers Can Honor Clerks' Pickets, Arbitrator Rules
Bill Mongelluzzo, Associate Editor |
The West Coast arbitrator who adjudicates labor disputes involving the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and waterfront employers on Wednesday ruled dockworkers in Los Angeles-Long Beach wou
Longshore labor
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ILWU to ILA: 'We have your back'
Bill Mongelluzzo, Associate Editor |
When the president of the West Coast dockworkers’ union pledged full support to the International Longshoremen’s Association in this year’s contract negotiations, many shippers and c
Longshore labor
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Waterfront Commission Report Adds Fuel to ILA Fire
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
Stories of mob connections, excess staffing and $400,000-a-year dockworker pay at the New York-New Jersey port got a fresh airing from the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor just days before the
Longshore labor
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ILA, USMX Exchange Contract Proposals, Express 'Confidence'
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
The International Longshoremen’s Association and its East and Gulf coast employers <a target="_blank" href="http://www.joc.com/labor/ila-employers-meet-talks"><u>exchanged initial contract propo
Longshore labor
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Crowley, Teamsters Agree on 5-year Contract
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
Crowley Maritime Corp.’s liner services division and the Teamsters union have agreed on a five-year contract for workers at the company’s marine terminal in San Juan, Puerto Rico.<br />
Longshore labor
ILA, Employers Meet for Talks
Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor |
Representatives of the International Longshoremen’s Association and its East and Gulf Coast employers are meeting in Tampa this week to exchange initial proposals for a contract to replace the o
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