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Japan is likely to start negotiating on its tariffs on rice and other key farm products with other members of the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade talks in September or later, the Japanese government said Monday.
Japan has been keen to negotiate on retaining its high tariffs on imported rice, wheat, beef, pork, dairy products and sugar to protect domestic producers from a potential influx of cheap imports under the envisioned TPP regional free trade pact.
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Published in Maritime Executive:
An Administrative Law Judge for the National Labor Relations Board issued a preliminary decision and recommended order on August 28 that the ILWU is not legally entitled to perform disputed work that is covered by the ILWU’s 80-year-old collective bargaining agreement with the union’s West Coast employers. The work was awarded to IBEW-represented electricians last year in an NLRB ruling that has since been vacated by a federal judge who found that the Board acted outside the clear legal mandates of the National Labor Relations Act when it issued a decision awarding work to the Port’s electricians because the Port’s public employees are excluded from the Board’s jurisdiction.
The ALJ’s preliminary decision and recommended order is based on a grossly flawed assumption that the Port controls the disputed work of monitoring refrigerated containers at Terminal 6 in the Port of Portland. However, the evidence and the law make clear that the work is under the ultimate control, not of the Port, but of the employers of International Longshore and Warehouse Union members, including the steamship carriers.
“The ALJ’s error about who...
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