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From the Long Beach Post:
President Barack Obama joined a number of affected organizations and top local officials Monday in urging the two bargaining parties in the ongoing clerical-workers strike at the port of Los Angeles and Long Beach to come to an agreement as quickly as possible.
“I can just tell you that we—and that includes the president—continue to monitor the situation in Los Angeles closely and urge the parties to continue their work at the negotiating table to get a deal done as quickly as possible,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters when asked about the strike during a White House press briefing.
An association representing more than 9,100 retail companies last week urged Obama to intervene on the strike, which is also being honored by the ILWU’s 10,000 members. The National Retail Federation’s letter also noted that Obama has the power to order the unions back to work under the Taft-Hartley Act with a temporary injunction that would declare an 80-day “cooling off period,” a tactic used last by George W. Bush in 2002 to force longshoremen back to work after a 10-day lockout that closed 29 West Coast ports.
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Excerpts from the Journal of Commerce:
Striking office clerical workers and their employers agreed Tuesday to accept federal mediation in an attempt to end the week-long strike that has crippled the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
Dozens of trade and transportation groups have pleaded with negotiators to accept mediation in a dispute that has already cost the national economy billions of dollars. One hundred organizations signed a joint letter to President Obama seeking engagement from the White House, including a request for a Taft-Hartley back-to-work injunction if needed.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, December 4, 2012
CONTACT: Craig Merrilees 510-774-5325
LOS ANGELES, CA – ILWU office clerical workers will work with a federal mediator in order to secure an agreement with employers that protects good jobs from being outsourced from communities surrounding the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
The decision to work with the federal mediator follows an all-night negotiating session led by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa that resulted in important progress—but an agreement to end the outsourcing of good jobs from the harbor area to foreign countries and other states—remains a serious obstacle that is preventing a settlement needed to end the strike.
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