Feed items
Christopher Lytle will be leaving the Port of Long Beach to take the help in Oakland.The Port of Oakland appointed a new director Thursday after a four-month search prompted after a spending scandal that forced out the previous director, Omar Benjamin.
The new top director, Chris Lytle, will take over on July 1 and is expected to focus on growing the Port’s maritime and aviation business.
He will leave his post as the executive director of the Port of Long Beach, where he has worked since 2006 when he was hired as one of the managing directors overseeing trade relations and port operations bureau. He was the deputy executive director and chief operating officer at the Port of Long Beach from 2008 to 2011, when he became the executive director.
More in the San Jose Mercury News
Source: OpEdNews
Source: Boston Herald
Source: Journal Sentinel
Source: Rolling Stone
Source: New York Times
Source: AP
[NOTE: ILWU International President Robert McEllrath was one of three International AFL-CIO Vice Presidents on the Executive Council who voted against supporting the bill.]
It appears one of the surprise losers during the implementation of the Affordable Care Act maybe some of the labor unions that most strongly supported the law. From the Hill:
Many UFCW members have what are known as multi-employer or Taft-Hartley plans. According to the administration’s analysis of the Affordable Care Act, the law does not provide tax subsidies for the roughly 20 million people covered by the plans. Union officials argue that interpretation could force their members to change their insurance and accept more expensive and perhaps worse coverage in the state-run exchanges.
Hansen, who is also the head of the Change to Win labor federation, told The Hill that his members often negotiate with their employers to receive better healthcare services instead of higher wages. Those bargaining gains could be wiped away because some employers won’t have the incentive to keep their workers’ multi-employer plans without tax subsidies.
More at Firedoglake
Please log in to view content
To view the content on this page, please log in to your account.
