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Article: Labor tension continues at Port despite hard-won pact.(Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- September 22, 2003
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If there ever was a honeymoon between unionized dockworkers and steamship lines calling on the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, it's long gone.
Eight months after both sides hailed the ratification of a six-year contract aimed at lessening tensions at the ports, a slowdown by longshoremen earlier this month has left employers carefully monitoring the pace of workflow.
The slowdown, which union officials deny was retaliatory, had been staged by dockworkers after the number of "swingmen" working with each crane was lowered to four from five.
The Pacific Maritime Association won a temporary victory on Sept. 11 when arbitrator David Miller ...