{"id":30680,"date":"2022-06-29T11:27:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T08:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/contract-negotiations-between-union-and-west-coast-port-employers-moving-forward-says-us-labor-secretary\/30680\/"},"modified":"2022-06-29T11:27:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T08:27:20","slug":"contract-negotiations-between-union-and-west-coast-port-employers-moving-forward-says-us-labor-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/contract-negotiations-between-union-and-west-coast-port-employers-moving-forward-says-us-labor-secretary\/30680\/","title":{"rendered":"Contract negotiations between union and West Coast port employers \u2018moving forward,\u2019 says US Labor Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content entry clearfix\">\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-before-post\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<p>Negotiations between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) to achieve a new labour agreement are \u201cmoving forward,\u201d said US Labor Secretary Martin Walsh this week. Walsh told <em>Reuters <\/em>that he gets weekly updates from the PMA on progress of the talks. They \u201ccontinually tell me that we\u2019re in a good place,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The current contract between the two parties is set to expire on Friday, but both sides have said they will continue to meet after that deadline as required. They have also said they will not stop work at the ports, welcome news to shippers who have dealt with significant disruptions over the last couple of years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-in-post-middle\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<p>Walsh appears confident that the talks will be successful. \u201cThere\u2019s been no issues that I\u2019m aware of that have come up that have made either side concerned,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-after-post\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n\t    <!-- \/91333190\/SPLASH247_*_Splash247_Article_*_Strip_Slot_*_2 --><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2\">\n<script>\ngoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2'); });\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-bottom-meta post-bottom-tags post-tags-modern\">\n<div class=\"post-bottom-meta-title\"><span class=\"tie-icon-tags\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span> Tags<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tagcloud\"><a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/tag\/united-states\/\" rel=\"tag\">United States<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>splash247<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Negotiations between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) to achieve a new labour agreement are \u201cmoving forward,\u201d said US Labor Secretary Martin Walsh this week. Walsh told Reuters that he gets weekly updates from the PMA on progress of the talks. They \u201ccontinually tell me that we\u2019re in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-port-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/30681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}