Select Page

Day: March 12, 2015

Post-negotiations report: Sky isn’t falling

Excerpts from a Los Angeles Times article titled ‘Ports dispute to have a small effect on economy’: The quarterly UCLA Anderson Forecast estimates that backlogs during the labor dispute between shipping companies and...

Read More

Houston Ship Channel fully reopens after collision

The Houston Ship Channel fully reopened Thursday morning after a collision between two vessels caused flammable gasoline additive to spill and forced a section of the major waterway to close for three days. A 4- to 8-mile...

Read More

Unions ready to battle against TPP trade deal

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka put lawmakers on notice Tuesday that votes in favor of giving President Obama fast-track authority for a pending multilateral trade pact will be used against them in the 2016 elections....

Read More