Shipping Companies Gain Upper Hand
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- "Although it was a lockout by shipping companies and not a dockworker strike that Bush ended, his invoking of the Taft-Hartley Act gave employers the ability to drag the dockworkers' union before a federal judge on charges of deliberately slowing the pace of work."
- "As shipping companies contemplate how to upgrade the technology used in their businesses, they are running into stiff resistance from the longshoremen's union. The issue is among the most contentious in the contract talks.
"The union's technology proposal provides for manning quotas that actually increase the number of clerks on the job. It also expands union jurisdiction to give the union jobs currently performed by management, thereby increasing costs. The union proposed a dispute resolution process that would essentially create a filibuster mechanism to keep technology from being implemented," according to the PMA.
Stallone responded by claiming the "PMA has a brilliant way of saying that black is white. They just flat out lie sometimes," he said.
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