Excerpts from the Journal of Commerce:
An ILWU spokeswoman said each local will vote on the agreement according to its own rules, and the results will be announced on Aug. 25.
The grain contract is separate from the coastwide contract negotiations between the ILWU and the Pacific Maritime Association that have been underway since May 12. The grain companies are not members of the PMA.
However, the tentative agreement could have a positive impact on the coastwide contract negotiations. Those talks in San Francisco have been interrupted several times this summer so ILWU negotiators could travel to the Pacific Northwest to participate in the grain talks.
A spokesman for the grain companies said that as part of the tentative agreement, the two parties will mutually release one another from complaints pending
before the National Labor Relations Board, but neither party will comment further until the tentative agreement is presented to the ILWU membership.