U.S. Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell have written to leaders of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Northwest Grain Handlers’ Association to reach a collective bargaining agreement for the Northwest grain terminals.
Weeks after the ILWU and American grain exporter TEMCO reached a collective bargaining agreement to cover three terminals in Portland, Kalama and Tacoma, Washington’s two U.S. Senators urged the union and TEMCO’s foreign competitors to follow suit and that the TEMCO agreement “can be used as a framework from which the remaining Northwest Grain Handlers Association members and the ILWU can build a cooperative dialogue and continue their negotiations.”
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