The labor dispute has caused brief delays for a major shipping company that hauls food and products from Tacoma, Washington, to the Port of Alaska.
A crane unloads containers from the Matson Tacoma, on May 9, 2023 at the Port of Alaska in Anchorage.
But the announcement came a day after the Journal of Commerce, a trade publication that covers ports, reported PMA and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union had agreed to a “cooling off period” after weeks of increasing uneasiness over the talks. Julie Su, the Biden administration’s acting labor secretary — and the nominee to take that post permanently — arrived in San Francisco on Monday to help facilitate the apparently fraught talks.
There hasn’t been a longhore strike on the West Coast since the 1970s and officials up and down the West Coast, including those for ILWU and PMA, repeatedly said there wouldn’t be one this time.The union and PMA, for example, announced last summer that they had reached a tentative agreement on terms for health benefits. In February, both parties said they remained hopeful of reaching a deal soon.
ILWU denied each accusation, though officials from multiple ports, as well as the trucking and retail industries, confirmed many of them. ILWU also said negotiators would continue fighting for a good deal, especially after dockworkers endured long hours during the coronavirus pandemic, as well has high rates of COVID-19.
Jonathan Gold, the National Retail Federation’s vice president of supply chain and customs policy, said on Wednesday evening that the tentative labor agreement could have a stabilizing effect on cargo volumes at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles.
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