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<DIV> The possibility of a nationwide shutdown of the docks is potentially
huge. We had the just concluded Chicago teachers strike.it was significantly
more militant than other strikes in the past. I also have the impression that
the deal they reached was not the totally rotten package that other unions have
agreed to - that it was quite a bit better than what had originally been
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>---------- Forwarded message ----------<BR><BR>Obviously,
the important part of this is the support pledged by other locals and the
ILWU. This could create a nationwide longshore strike just before a
presidential election, and the ramifications of that would be significant.
The recently formed Maritime Labor Alliance, which includes ship officer unions,
has also pledged support. A big question would be whether Obama would
invoke the Taft-Hartley Act to impose a cooling off period, effectively
making a strike illegal until after the election, and whether the strike
would happen anyway. The ILWU Northwest Master Grain Agreement also
expires at the end of the month, and in the negotiations underway now for that
the grain handling companies are insisting on givebacks along the lines of the
EGT/Longview agreement. The mood among longshoremen is not to give back
anything, so hold on to your hat for what could be a major advance in labor
activism soon. <BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>---------- Forwarded message ----------<BR>From: <B
class=gmail_sendername>Jack Heyman</B> <SPAN dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:jackheyman@comcast.net"
target=_blank>jackheyman@comcast.net</A>></SPAN><BR>Date: Thu, Sep 20, 2012
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lang=EN-US>NJ ILA Local OKs Strike If No Deal
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lang=EN-US><BR>Joseph Bonney, Senior Editor | Sep 18, 2012 12:46PM
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lang=EN-US><BR>Ports/Terminals | Labor | United States<BR>Bayonne local
approves $100,000 for pickets at other ports<U></U><U></U></SPAN></H5>
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lang=EN-US>An International Longshoremen’s Association local in Bayonne,
N.J., voted to authorize a strike and send pickets to other ports if no
contract agreement is reached before the ILA’s current Maine-to-Texas master
contract expires Sept. 30.<BR>Members of Local 1588 voted to earmark
$100,000 to pay for sending members to other ports to set up picket lines if
the ILA strikes. Local President Virgil Maldonado said the votes were
unanimous at a special membership meeting Monday night.<BR>The ILA and
United States Maritime Alliance are scheduled to resume negotiations
Wednesday and Thursday in New Jersey under supervision of a federal
mediator. The meetings on the master contract, which covers containers and
roll-on, roll-off cargo, will be the first since negotiations broke off Aug.
22.<U></U><U></U></SPAN></H5>
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lang=EN-US><BR>Local 1588’s 395 members work primarily at Global Terminals
in Bayonne, which plans to install remote-controlled stacking cranes and
labor-saving technology at truck gates as part of an expansion set for
completion in 2014.<BR>Before the negotiations broke off last month, the ILA
and USMX reached agreement in principle on a new program to pay dockworkers
displaced by new technology. The ILA and USMX also agreed on provisions to
preserve union jurisdiction over chassis maintenance and
repair.<BR>Maldonado said the $100,000 for out-of-town pickets was
authorized to allow ILA picketing in U.S. ports, including the West Coast,
and at overseas locations where other unions have pledged support for the
ILA.<BR>Paddy Crumlin, president of the International Transport Workers
Federation and the Maritime Union of Australia, met last week with the
presidents of the ILA and International Longshore and Warehouse Union, and
the three pledged mutual support.<BR>The ILWU is working under a contract
that doesn’t expire until mid-2014.<U></U><U></U></SPAN></H5>
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lang=EN-US><BR>Local 1588 was the second New York-New Jersey local to
authorize its leaders to call a strike if no contract is reached. Local
1804-1, representing 1,800 equipment maintenance and repair workers, voted
Aug. 28 to authorize a strike.<BR>Local 1804-1 is headed by Dennis Daggett,
president of the ILA’s Maine-to-Virginia Atlantic Coast District and son of
the union’s president, Harold Daggett.<U></U><U></U></SPAN></H5>
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lang=EN-US><BR>Its members work for companies in the New York Shipping
Association, which is part of USMX, and the Metropolitan Marine Maintenance
Contractors Association, which negotiates separately with the union. An ILA
spokesman said, however, that all of the local’s members voted to support a
strike and that NYSA<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
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