Today just before noon, the ILWU responded to PMA’s request for federal mediation.<\/p>\n
ILWU-news-release-on-negotiations-Dec.-29-2014<\/a><\/p>\n Big Bob’s big move is to ask to negotiate with the PMA Board of Directors. Wow.<\/p>\n Does he not understand that in the world of big time negotiations; they field their team and you field yours?<\/p>\n Which one of the Directors would he like to talk with, because they will all say the same thing as their representative, Jim McKenna?<\/p>\n Does he not get it? The message will be the same no matter who delivers it.<\/p>\n Time for the PMA to get on with it, unless they want to dance with Big Bob for 2 years like the Grain Employers.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, apparently PMA is content to play footsy with the ILWU, based on their response to the above news release.<\/p>\n PMA-Renews-Call-for-Federal-Mediation<\/a><\/p>\n PMA can renew their call for Federal Mediation till the cows come home, it ain’t going to happen.<\/p>\n PMA Employers are still making lots on money and so are the longshoremen.<\/p>\n What will it take to get PMA to make the next move, and implement or lockout and bring this to conclusion?<\/p>\n Implementation, sounds very reasonable based on PMA’s “no takeaways” robust compensation package.<\/p>\n What are they waiting for? Permission from the ILWU?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today just before noon, the ILWU responded to PMA’s request for federal mediation. ILWU-news-release-on-negotiations-Dec.-29-2014 Big Bob’s big move is to ask to negotiate with the PMA Board of Directors. Wow. Does he not understand that in the world of big time negotiations; they field their team and you field yours? Which one of the Directors … Continue reading “ILWU turns what should be crunch time into amateur hour, with latest “news release.””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-default"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/longshore-labor-relations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/longshore-labor-relations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/longshore-labor-relations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longshore-labor-relations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longshore-labor-relations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/longshore-labor-relations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":870,"href":"https:\/\/longshore-labor-relations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/longshore-labor-relations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longshore-labor-relations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longshore-labor-relations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}