The industry group representing shippers said operations at some marine terminals at the Ports of L.A. and Long Beach were 'effectively shut down'' following staged concerted and disruptive work actions from the union representing West Coast dockworkers.
The shippers industry group, Pacific Maritime Association, in a tweet further claimed International Longshore and Warehouse Union also staged similar work actions that "shut down or severely impacted terminal actions at the ports of Oakland, Tacoma, Seattle and Hueneme.
The two parties have been negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement, which would cover more than 22,000 longshore workers at 29 U.S. West Coast ports. Their previous agreement expired on July 1, 2022. "As shipping volumes return to normal in 2023, PMA members have continued to post revenues that far exceed pre-pandemic times by billions of dollars,'' the dockworkers' union added.
"Despite this fact, from pre-pandemic levels through 2022, the percentage of ILWU wages and benefits continued to drop compared to PMA rising revenues,'' ILWU said in a statement.
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