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Re: Port of Oakland struggles as Ports of America abandons terminal
Author: jst3751
Date: 09-04-2016 - 11:31
BOB2 Wrote:
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> Some of this may be more about pressure to reduce
> costs by attempting to use bankruptcy to deal with
> labor agreements and/or pension payments
> obligations. It's seems to me it's been a while
> since the last ILWU contract, if I am recalling
> correctly, which always results in an interesting
> dance between the Union and the Operators.
Well there goes your credibility. The last contact between the ILWU and the west coast ports was just last year, retroactive to July 1 2014 and expiring on June 30 2019.
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> Some of this may be more about pressure to reduce
> costs by attempting to use bankruptcy to deal with
> labor agreements and/or pension payments
> obligations. It's seems to me it's been a while
> since the last ILWU contract, if I am recalling
> correctly, which always results in an interesting
> dance between the Union and the Operators.
Well there goes your credibility. The last contact between the ILWU and the west coast ports was just last year, retroactive to July 1 2014 and expiring on June 30 2019.
