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-  -West
Coast Port Lockout
20021030
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"Union
points finger at shippers, Justice Department in filing."
... "The West Coast dockworkers union blames mismanagement by shipping
companies for slow movement of cargo, saying Pacific Maritime Association
members are trying to make longshoremen look bad." ... "In documents filed
yesterday with the Justice Department, the International Longshore and
Warehouse Union also said the department appears to blame longshoremen
for the backlog. The union says the department has not asked the maritime
association to respond to union charges that its mismanagement is keeping
ports clogged." -By Frank Vinluan -SeattleTimes.NWsource
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"Longshore
union blames owners for port backlog: Letter
to feds refutes charges by management." ... "A combination of increased
traffic, a lack of skilled labor, equipment shortages and breakdowns and
other logistical problems that are the responsibility of employers explains
the decline in number of cargo containers processed, said the International
Longshore and Warehouse Union." ... "The union made its case in a letter
to the Department of Justice, which had requested a response to an allegation
of a slowdown made by the owners' group, the Pacific Maritime Association."
-By George Raine -SFGate.com
20021009
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"Dock
backlog likely to hit Christmas sales: Intervention
by Bush will get ports moving again, but return to normal is uncertain."
... "At least four weeks of loading and unloading backlog still lie ahead,
after which the movement of goods will still be crimped. The amount of
available dock space, and the number of containers, ships, and personnel
to process goods are all in question." ... "The result, for the short term
of five weeks, will continue to be the stranding of both perishable foodstuffs
as well as goods destined for those markets with very specific windows
of salability." -By Daniel B. Wood
-CSMonitor/buy
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"Bush
Gets The Goods Moving." ... "Judge Alsup will hold
a hearing in a week on whether to grant a full 80-day injunction. Such
an order would push the dispute past the Christmas buying season, past
the November elections--and, perhaps, past the start of the war, if it
comes." ... "The judge issued a temporary restraining order that expires
Oct. 16. On that day, he will hold a hearing to determine whether to impose
the 80-day cooling-off period as mandated by Taft-Hartley at that time.
Both sides expect the judge to do so." -By Dan Ackman
-Forbes
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"Bush
Invokes Taft-Hartley Act to Open West Coast Ports."
... "In seeking to suspend the shutdown for 80 days, Mr. Bush became the
first president to successfully invoke the Taft-Hartley Act emergency provisions
since President Richard M. Nixon sought to stop a longshoremen's strike
in 1971." ... "Mr. Bush said he was worried about the movement of military
supplies. The Pentagon often uses commercial shipping lines to send supplies
and equipment overseas, and those lines would undoubtedly fill that role
from the busy West Coast ports if fighting erupted in Iraq or elsewhere
in the Middle East." -By David E. Sanger with Steven
Greenhouse -NYTimes
via -AltaVista-News
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- "Asia
Relieved U.S. Ports Reopen: Asia Relieved,
but Counts Cost As West Coast Ports Set to Reopen." ... "Hong Kong's Trade
Development Council has estimated local losses linked to the shutdown would
be at least $128.2 million." ... "The impact has varied, though with countries
like Malaysia and Taiwan that specialize in high-value electronics and
computer equipment to the United States saying they are least affected
because a large share of their exports are shipped by air."
-AP via -ABCNEWS.com
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"West
Coast Ports Set to Reopen After Court Intervenes in Labor Dispute."
... "Workers may need as long as two and a half months to clear the backlog
of goods caused by the 10-day lockout at 29 major Pacific ports." ... "The
most often-cited study estimated total harm to the economy from the labor
strife at between $1 billion and $2 billion a day. The study, prepared
for the shippers' association by Martin Associates of Lancaster, Pa., estimated
the cost of a 10-day stoppage at $19 billion."
-AP via -ABCNEWS.com
20021008
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- "Port
Lockout Left Cargo Stranded." ... "The current port
shutdown occurred in a critical month, October, when imports are generally
at their highest as American retailers rush to obtain deliveries for the
all-important Christmas sales season. The October-December period normally
accounts for 40 percent of retailers' annual sales." ... "The West Coast
ports, which handle more than $300 billion in trade annually, account for
more than half of all containerized cargo moving in and out of the country,
reflecting the burgeoning trade with Pacific Rim countries." -By
Martin Crutsinger -AP
via -Newsday.com
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"Bush
Wins End to West Coast Lockout." ... "President Bush
won an 80-day halt to a management lockout of West Coast ports on Tuesday
as a federal judge granted a court order to reopen the docks and start
clearing a huge backlog of cargo from more than 200 ships now idled offshore."
... "In San Francisco, U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup said the
government had met the requirements for an injunction to reopen the ports
and issued a temporary restraining order with a fuller hearing set for
Oct. 16." -By Andrew Quinn -Reuters
via -ABCNEWS.com
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"Stocks
Rise on Hopes That Port Dispute Will Be Resolved."
... "Investors took heart after Bush said he will seek a court order to
suspend a management lockout of workers at 29 U.S. West Coast ports. Citing
a need to protect the U.S. economy and jobs, Bush is invoking the 1947
Taft-Hartley labor act for the first time since 1978 despite administration
fears of an organized labor backlash."
-Reuters via -NYTimes
via -Moreover
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"Bush
seeks to halt port lockout." ... "A cooling-off period
would keep the ports open during the crucial Christmas season, in which
retailers are relying on imported goods to stock their shelves." ... "The
trade-off for the Bush administration is that a court-ordered truce could
energize organized labor — traditionally a Democratic ally — just four
weeks before midterm elections. Democratic candidates rely on heavy turnout
from union workers, and some presidential advisers fear Bush's intervention
will drive angry labor voters to the polls." -By Leigh
Strope -AP
via -OregonLive.com/Oregonian
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"Longshoremen
agree to return to work." ... "The longshoremen's
union at 29 West Coast ports agreed Tuesday to return to work under a 30-day
contract extension." ... "But almost simultaneously, President Bush announced
in Washington that he was asking Attorney General John Ashcroft to seek
an injunction under the Taft-Hartley Act."
-AP via -OregonLive.com/Oregonian
20021007
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"Courts
Are Port Option for Bush Under Act." ... "The [1947]
Taft-Hartley Act, passed over the protests of the labor movement and the
veto of President Harry Truman, is a sweeping piece of legislation that
curtails some of the union rights workers had won in the 1935 National
Labor Relations Act." -Reuters
via -ABCNEWS.com
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"Taft-Hartley
Act no quick-fix for port dispute." ... "If President
Bush decides to intervene in the labor dispute that has shut down West
Coast ports since Sunday, a resumption of work would be neither quick nor
assured." ... "Under the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act, Bush would have to appoint
a fact-finding panel and try to convince federal courts on the West Coast
that the dispute would "imperil the national health or safety." If the
courts agree, they can order the ports to reopen and keep running for up
to 80 days." -By Peter Szekely
-Reuters via -Forbes
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"U.S.
Port Talks Break Down, Crisis Escalates." ... "The
lockout of ports handling $300 billion in trade has raised widespread fears
of new disruptions in the faltering U.S. economy." ... "With billions of
dollars worth of cargo stranded in ship holds and dock terminals, manufacturing
production lines are beginning to shut down, food shipments are rotting
and retailers are growing anxious that shop shelves will be bare just as
the U.S. holiday shopping season gets underway." -By
Kevin Krolicki-Reuters
via -ABCNEWS.com
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"Bush
to Seek to Lift Port Lockout: Bush to Ask Federal
Court to Reopen West Coast Ports for 80 days, Labor Dept. Official Says."
... "Monday's move came hours after contract negotiations between workers
and management collapsed. Port operators and manufacturers' groups applauded
the move, but the longshoremen accused the administration of trying to
break the union. The workers have been locked out, without pay, by management."
-AP via -ABCNEWS.com
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"Bush
to Intervene in Port Lockout." ... "President Bush
will take the first step toward ending a labor dispute between West Coast
port workers and shipping lines Monday by forming a board of inquiry to
make a quick assessment of the economic damage and determine whether the
two sides are negotiating in good faith." ... "Bush is forming the board
under the Taft-Hartley Act, hours after talks broke down between the union
and management Sunday night." -By Leigh Strope
-AP via -Seattle-PI.com.NWsource
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"Port
Talks Break Off Indefinitely." ... "Labor talks broke
off between longshoremen and shipping lines after the union rejected the
latest contract proposal in a dispute that has shut down West Coast ports
and done billions of dollars in damage to the economy." ... "The Pacific
Maritime Association, which represents shipping companies and terminal
operators, has locked out 10,500 members of the longshoremen's union, claiming
the dockworkers had engaged in a slowdown late last month." -By
Simon Avery -AP
via -Seattle-PI.com.NWsource
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and Warehouse Union
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