Major retail and manufacturing groups are urging the White House to help broker a deal between dockworkers and port operators.
When asked for comment Tuesday, union officials referred to a statement released Friday by ILWU President Willie Adams. He pointed to “historic” profits made by port operators, which the union estimated topped $510 billion during the pandemic.“We aren’t going to settle for an economic package that doesn’t recognize the heroic efforts and personal sacrifices of the ILWU workforce that lifted the shipping industry to record profits,” Adams said.
At Long Beach on Monday, he said, two more terminals called off pickup appointments because of low volume.from the Oakland port operator showed just two individuals present, with 66 longshoreman jobs going unfilled. Most of the job openings called for skilled workers. “Jobs were ordered and dispatchers were at the hall … but no workers were in the hall to take any jobs,” reads the summary. Shift summaries from Monday showed workers returning to their posts, with all outstanding jobs filled.
West Coast shippers say they had hoped that supply chain improvements spurred by the pandemic would give Pacific ports long-term stability, and help them claw back lost market share. The labor dispute has knocked much of that progress off track.“Here we are licking our wounds and still digging out, and the contract is dropped in the middle of it,” Schrap said.
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