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PMA members stated that they cannot afford the almost $1,200 per day cost to employ International Longshore and Warehouse Union members to do little work.
After Breitbart broke the story on Thursday that union members of the ILWU planned to “walk out within the week,” the PMA employer group announced they can no longer continue to pay workers the premium pay for diminished productivity.
With ILWU members continuing to withhold the needed crane operators and slow crane movements, shippers and their customers estimated they were losing $1 billion a day. But a complete shut-down is expected to raise the U.S. economic pain to $2 billion a day.
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In a similar series of work safe job action slowdowns in 2002, the Pacific Maritime Association closed down their operations and locked out workers for 10 days. President George W. Bush invoked the Taft-Hartley Act to reopen the ports.
Although the Obama Administration had taken a hands-off attitude to the labor battle,
http://www.breitbart.com/california/2015/02/07/1200-a-day-union-workers-force-shut-down-of-29-west-coast-ports/
$1,200-A-DAY UNION WORKERS FORCE SHUT-DOWN OF 29 WEST COAST PORTS
by CHRISS W. STREET
7 Feb 2015
Newport Beach, CA
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