ILWU-PMA Negotiations Get Sticky-PMA Bosses Accuse ILUW Members Of Slow Down According To Cunningham Report
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The Cunningham Report
What's The Buzz
07/13/2008
Negotiations between the ILWU and the Pacific Maritime Association, which represents 71 waterfront employers, became increasingly sticky late last week with the PMA charging union members with slowing down production in Tacoma and Los Angeles-Long Beach while talks continue...ILWU spokesman Craig Merrilees discounted the union actions in Tacoma and Southern California, saying that the PMA was making a mountain out of a molehill... Still pending is the PMA request to the National Labor Relations Board for the labor agency to file a charge against the ILWU over the May Day shutdown of West Coast ports for one shift by union workers as a protest against the war in Iraq.
-- The Cunningham Report