Negotiations have reached an agreement to end on Tuesday night for eight days on strike, weaken the country's largest port group, and to prevent the shipper to provide billions of dollars of goods to all parts of the country's warehouse and distribution center.
International coastal and warehouse alliance vice President Familathe ray, "I am really very happy, said:" tell you, my 10000 coastal workers will start in Los Angeles and long beach port handling cargo these ships. "We want to move the whole supply chain, the goods in the country, and access to everybody, they are looking for in the store."
The mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, from a few hours of talks, he just arrived in Washington from federal mediators escort announced the deal.
"I think it is appropriate, and said:" mission accomplished ", "villa lai gerben gaza said.
According to the agreement, this is the day of negotiations, including negotiation meeting all night, suddenly stalemate the leaping progress, on Tuesday. Villa lai gerben gaza said the two sides are ready to vote, mediators arrived.
Federal regulators said, they have a little solution.
"In the final analysis, it does work, the two parties reach their agreement of the federal arbitration and mediation service director George Cohen said," this is no doubt in my mind, collective bargaining industrial democratic action is the best example. "
On November 27 strike started, about 400 members of the coast and warehouse union local civilian units off their work. The clerk has been working for more than two years did not sign a contract.
Strike quickly closed 10 port and terminal, some all dockers, clerk sister members of a union and refused to over the picket line.
In the long process of negotiations is union argument, namely terminal operators hope that the future of the outsourcing of clerical work of the country and overseas - pay cargo people who deny charges.
Pay the cargo man said, they want to flexibility, fill the vacancy, no longer need to clerk resignation or retirement. They said, they promised to the current clerk life-time employment system.
During the strike, both sides said, salary, vacation, pension and other benefits is not a big problem.
Clerk, $87 a year of average basic salary, some of the best in the country pay blue-collar job. When the vacation, pension and other benefits factors, employers said they annual compensation plan, up to 165000 dollars.
"We know we wish" forward, one of Trinnie Thompson said, in strikes. "We thank you very much for our work, we just want to keep them."
The union leaders said that if the future work of the port is not preserved, and the result will be the U.S. economy serious economic strike, the other part of the big companies can use people in other countries and countries will be forced to increase their profit margins work less.
After the merger, Los Angeles and long beach port handling all the goods in the sea about 44% in the United States. The dock every day about 10 billion us dollars of goods, including cars from Japan and from computers in China, a flow.
Template and port and terminal to remain in the delivery of the goods, about 7.6 million, every day, according to the port officials. The goods piled up in the dock, and in the vicinity of the railway yard, or in many cases, still in Hong Kong ship. The ships were transferred to other port, along the west coast.
"We are very glad to see that terminal will run again, the flow of goods," said Stephen berry, Los Angeles/long beach harbor employers' association's chief negotiator.
The clerk to deal with the record invoice and billing notice, such task, arrange wharf customs inspectors visit, and ensure the goods leave the dock, and get it should go.
$100 million every day in the busy ports of the goods will be placed on the truck, train, take it to all parts of the country's warehouse and distribution center.

 



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