With a strike deadline looming, the group representing East and Gulf Coast ports is asking a federal agency to make the Longshoremen's union come to the bargaining table to negotiate a new contract.
TOM KRISHER, AP Business WriterPresident Joe Biden retains the power to prevent the strike or halt it from moving forward.With a strike deadline looming, the group representing East and Gulf Coast ports is asking a federal agency to make the Longshoremen's union come to the bargaining table to negotiate a new contract.
Cranes at the Port of New York and New Jersey appear behind the Statue of Liberty, Nov. 20, 2022, in a photo taken from New York.The NLRB request comes just four days before the ILA's six-year contract with the ports expires, and the union representing 45,000 dockworkers from Maine to Texas says it will go on strike at 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday.
The union called the NLRB filing "another publicity stunt" from the alliance and said the foreign-owned shipping companies it represents earn billions of dollars and take the money out of the U.S. The companies, it said in a release, "fail to adequately compensate the ILA longshore workforce for their labor."
A vessel is loaded with containers by several ship to shore crane at the Georgia Ports Authority's Port of Savannah Garden City Terminal, on Oct. 21, 2021.In early bargaining, industry analysts say the union sought 77% pay raises over six years to make up for inflation and give workers a chunk of the billions made by shipping companies since the coronavirus pandemic.
The ILA has disputed claims it attributed to the alliance that the union's demands amount to a wage increase of over 75% over the life of the contract. A strike would shut down as many as 36 ports that handle nearly half of the cargo going in and out of the U.S. on ships.
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