Union dockworkers at West Coast ports have reached a tentative six-year contract agreement with their employers.
Union dockworkers at West Coast ports have reached a tentative six-year contract agreement with their employers, potentially easing concerns about shipping delays and higher prices for customers and businesses after tensions between both sides led to disruptions to shipyard operations through this year.
In a statement, acting U.S. Secretary of Labor Julie Su, who helped both parties come together, said that “the tentative agreement delivers important stability for workers, for employers and for our country’s supply chain.” Through the spring, the PMA accused the union of keeping workers off the job, slowing or halting work at port terminals like those in Los Angeles and Long Beach — both massive entryways for clothing, furniture, auto parts and other goods coming in from Asia — and delaying ships’ departures as contract talks went on.
Along the West Coast, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach became the most visible representation of the supply-chain bottlenecks that stretched through 2021 and last year, as massive container ships backed up along the water. Pandemic-related factory shutdowns abroad, overloaded U.S. warehouses further inland, and snags in the flow of shipping containers all pushed delivery costs higher and slowed shipping times.
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