* California - PMA members will temporarily suspend premium-pay weekend and holiday vessel operations on four upcoming dates
-- The Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) announced Wednesday that due to ongoing International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) slowdowns, PMA members will temporarily suspend premium-pay weekend and holiday vessel operations on four upcoming dates, while terminal operators can decide whether yard, gate and rail operations will continue... According to the release, Southern California terminal operators will increase daytime vessel operations on non-holiday weekends... The PMA's decision to suspend operations rather than pay the ILWU workers higher holiday rates for slowed productivity comes in light of the ILWU's demand for the right to fire any arbitrator out of accordance with their employer’s opinion, as well as the 200 slowdowns and work stoppages caused by the Union during the 2008-2014 contract period... According to the release, weekend and holiday pay rates require a premium of 50 percent or more than the standard longshore wage rate, therefore longshore workers and clerks would be paid between $54 and $75 per hour and foremen would be paid between $77 and $92 per hour... The PMA made an offer last week for a comprehensive contract that would raise ILWU wages, maintain fully employer-paid healthcare and increase the ILWU pension. The contract guarantees that longshore workers are paid for 40 hours a week, even if work is not available, while the ILWU would also have control over the maintenance and repair of chassis... (Photo: Union Workers Force Shut-Down) - Long Beach,CAL,USA -The Long Beach Posts, by Asia Morris -11 Feb 2015
* California - Port trucking companies fight accruing charges for delayed containers, declare Force Majeure
-- The Harbor Trucking Association, a coalition of Los Angeles and Long Beach intermodal carriers, announced on Friday that it had been copied on more than 70 letters sent by 70 different Southern California trucking companies in the drayage business at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, to the Intermodal Association of North America (IANA) and various steamship lines to declare force majeure, as defined under the Uniform Intermodal Interchange Agreement (UIIA)... "A force majeure basically means that there is a situation out of their control that's impacting their ability to fulfill a contract called the Unified Intermodal Interchange Agreement, and there is a clause under force majeure that basically suspends a lot of the provisions under the UIIA when a situation of force majeure is declared" ... Weston LaBar, Executive Director of the Harbor Trucking Association and Partner with Long Beach-based PEAR Strategies, went on to explain that trucking companies are getting charged both per diem and demurrage fees, where some of the companies are receiving bills in the hundreds of thousands of dollars per month for not being able to return empty shipping containers to yards that are too congested and for not being allowed to take possession of full containers at the port. Motor carriers can be charged up to $175 a day for having to store a container or other equipment... (Photo by Asia Morris) - Los Angeles,CAL,USA -The Long Beach Posts, by ASIA MORRIS -FEBRUARY 09 2015
* California - Los Angeles, Long Beach port truckers at Carson firm OK first labor contract
-- Newly unionized Los Angeles and Long Beach port truck drivers at a Carson company have ratified their first contract, it was announced Monday... After three days of bargaining, Shippers Transport Express drivers voted Sunday on a one-year contract that increased hourly wages from $18 per hour to $21 per hour retroactive to Jan. 9 when drivers voted to unionize. The deal also offers full medical insurance with 100 percent of premiums paid by the employer... The drivers, who are represented by International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 848, will also receive paid leave, overtime after 40 hours a week, a process for filing grievances and resolving work conflict issues under their new contract, which spans from Jan. 9 to Dec. 31... (Photographer, Brad Graverson - Kevin Baddeley, center, general manager of Shippers Transport Express, which now employs union truck drivers rather than using independent contractors. Press conference at Banning's Landing, Wilmington) - Long Beach,CAL,USA -Long Beach Press Telegram, by Karen Robes Meeks -9 Feb 2015Labels: transport and logistics news
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