Excerpts from today’s Journal of Commerce:
In a letter published on the United States Maritime Alliance Web site, USMX Chairman and CEO James Capo urged the ILA president to agree to negotiations without preconditions and to work to avoid disruptions when the union’s contract expires on Sept. 30.
Capo was responding to Daggett’s letter to ILA members last week saying negotiations were stalled. Daggett’s letter said management appeared “unwilling to agree to the ILA’s main demand for job protection” from automation and that union members “should prepare themselves for any action we may have to take if USMX’s position does not change.”