http://www.huffingto.....rt-strike/
it will be interesting to see what comes of this
Be RADICAL Grow Food
looks like the White House is stepping in
With the West Coast dock strike reaching a critical point, the White House announced Saturday that Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez will start talks with the two sides.
“The negotiations over the functioning of the West Coast Ports have been taking place for months with the Administration urging the parties to resolve their differences,” Eric Schultz, the principal deputy press secretary at the White House, said in a statement. “Out of concern for the economic consequences of further delay, the President has directed his Secretary of Labor Tom Perez travel to California to meet with the parties to urge them to resolve their dispute quickly at the bargaining table.”
“Secretary Perez is already in contact with the parties and will keep the President fully updated,” Schultz added.
http://www.washingto.....story.html
wonder if they will pull a Reagan
looks like a deal has been reached
SAN FRANCISCO — Negotiators reached a tentative contract covering West Coast dockworkers on Friday evening, likely ending a protracted labor dispute that snarled international trade at seaports handling about $1 trillion worth of cargo annually.
The breakthrough came after nine months of negotiations that turned contentious in the fall, when dockworkers and their employers began blaming each other for problems getting imports to consumers and exports overseas.
Labor Secretary Tom Perez, who heralded the tentative deal in a conference call with reporters, says that normal operations were slated to resume on the docks starting Saturday night. But he's not sure how long it will take to clear a cargo backlog that has left produce rotting because it couldn't be loaded on ships and retailers frustrated at not receiving needed shipments.
The agreement "brings to an end what has become a significant headwind" to the economy, with "too many innocent people and businesses suffering," he says. The result of the slowdown in the ports, including several days of closure to ship movements this month, has been "empty shelves and angry customers."
Perez, who joined the talks in San Francisco this week, says the tentative agreement was reached as he was about to follow through on a threat to both sides to either come to an agreement or face the grim prospect of having to go to Washington next week to hammer out remaining issues.
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