A U.S. Senate committee Wednesday voted to send new legislation requiring U.S. ports to provide monthly productivity reports to the federal government to the Senate floor.
In a 13-11 vote along party lines, committee senators gave their stamp of approval to the Port Transparency Act, part of the Comprehensive Transportation and Consumer Protection Act.
In a statement, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, one of the principal parties in the West Coast labor dispute, called the bill an “unprecedented, expensive and a risky expansion of government data collection.”
Alongside the labor federation’s Transportation Trades Department, ILWU leaders have argued the bill would significantly infringe on unions’ collective bargaining rights and labor-management dialogues.
