Labor secretary to press 2 sides in West Coast port
dispute
Container ships wait at the dock to be unloaded at the Port
of Oakland Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015, in Oakland, Calif. Companies that operate
marine terminals didn't call workers to unload ships Thursday that carry car parts,
furniture, clothing, electronics, just about anything made in Asia and destined
for U.S. consumers. The partial lockout is the result of an increasingly
damaging labor dispute between dockworkers and their employers. The two sides
have been negotiating a new contract, and stalled talks have all but paralyzed
29 ports that handle about one-quarter of U.S. international trade, around $1
trillion worth of cargo annually. (AP Photo/Ben Margot) The Associated Press
By Associated Press1:24 p.m.Feb. 14, 2015
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Barack Obama is sending his labor secretary to California
to meet with both sides in a contract dispute that has affected the flow of
goods from Asia into West Coast ports.
A White House spokesman, Eric Schultz, said the president is
getting Secretary Tom Perez involved because of concerns about the economic
consequences of further delays.
Perez's mission is to meet with the parties and press them
to quickly settle their differences at the negotiating table.
The waters off Los Angeles, Oakland and Washington state's Puget Sound have become parking lots for dozens
of ships awaiting space at the docks.
Employers are locking out dockworkers who man the cranes
that lift cargo on and off ships, saying they have slowed work as a bargaining
tactic.
The union denies that.
International
Longshoremen's Association
Turner
Pollard Strategies, LLC is the lobby firm for the International Longshoremen's Association, the Exxon Mobil Corp., the General
Dynamics Corporation, and was the lobby firm for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
Note: Henrietta
Holsman Fore is a director at the Exxon
Mobil Corp., and a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
Andrew
L. Stern was the president of the Service
Employees International Union (SEIU), and is a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think
tank).
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Lester Crown
was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), is a
director at the General Dynamics
Corporation, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
James S.
Crown is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), a director
at the General Dynamics Corporation,
and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
James
M. Beggs was the EVP for the General
Dynamics Corporation, and the under secretary for the U.S. Department of Transportation.
J. Christopher
Reyes was a director at the General
Dynamics Corporation, and is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Kathleen L. Brown
is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, the California state government governor Jerry Brown’s sister, and was the California state government treasurer.
Jerry
Brown is Kathleen L. Brown’s
brother, the California state government
governor, and was the mayor of Oakland
(CA).
Penny S. Pritzker
is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and the secretary for the
U.S. Department of Commerce.
Gary
F. Locke was the secretary at the U.S.
Department of Commerce for the Barack
Obama administration, and the Washington
state government governor.
R.
Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Newton
N. Minow is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Kathryn B.
Thomson was a partner at Sidley Austin
LLP, is the general counsel for the U.S.
Department of Transportation, and married to Christopher P. Lu.
Christopher P. Lu
was a litigation associate at Sidley Austin
LLP, Barack Obama’s legislative
director, is married to Kathryn B.
Thomson, and the deputy secretary for the U.S. Department of Labor.
Ann
McLaughlin Korologos was the secretary for the U.S. Department of Labor, and the chair emeritus for the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
Naomi A. Walker
was the associate deputy secretary for the U.S.
Department of Labor, and the deputy director of government affairs for the AFL-CIO.
George
Meany was the president of the AFL-CIO,
and the president of the American
Federation of Labor.
American Federation of Labor
Affiliated unions and
brotherhoods
Longshoremen's Association,
International
Seamen's International Union of
America
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