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...“It’s like living in the middle of a Robert Harris or an Enid Blyton or both. It’s an extraordinary landscape and endlessly fascinating.” The only flying objects here now are the birds....
...Last March as the pandemic first spread around the world, terminal operators in LA and Long Beach quickly came to an agreement with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, which represents workers...
...Dungeness is unusual both biologically and geologically: a cuspate foreland formed by the meeting of longshore drift from the north and west, there are 600 species of plants, abundant birdlife as well as...
...The agreement, after nine months of talks, should start to ease the crippling congestion that has hit the ports since November amid an apparent unofficial slowdown by members of the International Longshore...
...Mr Gold was speaking after the Pacific Maritime Association, representing employers, presented what it called its “all-in” offer to the International Longshore and Warehouse Union after nine months of contract...
...The Pacific Maritime Association says work slowdowns by members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union since late October have created many of the problems, which have disrupted US retailers’...
...A now-resolved stand-off between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association — which represents private terminal operators — has contributed to a slowdown in the...
...The deal between the Pacific Maritime Association, representing employers, and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union followed nine months of talks....
...Eric Shultz, a White House press secretary, said the PMA and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union had been negotiating “for months”....
...While both the PMA and International Longshore and Warehouse Union said they intended to restart work on Monday, it remained unclear on Sunday how long work would continue, given the dire state of relations...
...Tom Perez, the US labour secretary, on Tuesday flew to San Francisco to try to broker a settlement to the stand-off between port employers and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union that has caused...
...The contract between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association expired on July 1 and work at many ports has slowed significantly while the talks drag on....
...The Pacific Maritime Association, representing employers, and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, representing workers, have been in fruitless negotiations for eight months over a new labour...
...The Pacific Maritime Association, which represents employers at the ports, has blamed the congestion on deliberate work slowdowns by members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union....
...Robert McEllrath, the ILWU’s president, said the shutdown was an effort to put economic pressure on his members and gain leverage in the talks....
...supply chains for retailers and other customers of US West Coast container ports, the federal government this week stepped in to appoint a mediator in the labour dispute at the heart of the issue, writes Robert...
...The International Longshore and Warehouse Union, which represents workers, has not yet said whether it will agree to mediation....
Unless terminals modernise, American importers and exporters face higher costs than their rivals
...Members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union — the dockers’ union at all the coast’s ports — have been working since July without a contract....
...Canadian National Railway (CN) took the action amid concerns that talks between US port employers and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union over a new contract might end in a strike or lockout....
...The 600 clerical workers at the heart of the dispute belong to the Office Clerical Unit (OCU) of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, which represents port workers all along the Pacific coast...
...But shipping lines say privately they have largely been reluctant to divert to other US and Canadian west coast ports for fear that the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, whose members are on strike...
...Robert McEllrath, the ILWU’s international president, called the outcome a “victory”, saying the support of union’s 10,000 members around the ports had secured it....
...McEllrath, president of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union....
...In a separate deal, the SEC alleged that Wachovia had told investors in another CDO called Longshore 3 that it had acquired assets from affiliates at “fair market prices” and on an “arm’s-length basis” when...
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