Ports Crippled Due to Labor Dispute

Ports Crippled Due to Labor Dispute

On November 3 Vice President of Bosco Trading Company Shelly Boshart noticed something was amiss — her company’s trucks were delayed or not able to unload their cargo at the Port of Seattle, soon it was the same issues at the Port of Tacoma and the Port of Portland. She soon discovered the issue was a labor dispute. If you haven’t heard of this issue — well you need to be aware of it. Boshart shares more
Boshart: “As we are looking at this port crisis right now and looking long term — if we don’t get some things settled at the port whether it is the next two weeks needing to ship ag products immediately and looking long term and if we don’t get a favorable negotiation settled between ILWU and the PMA - which is the Pacific Maritime Association - and the ILWU gets all of its demands in this negotiation we are looking at being uncompetitive in the long-run at these ports. What that means for agriculture — we can’t compete with the rest of the world. And so whether you look at the short time problem of not being able to get our containers which are currently sitting on the docks and have been sitting there for the three weeks — we are not getting paid. Our customers are not getting their product. That is a huge problem in the short-term; but in the long-term we are looking at us not being able to be competitive with the world and that is huge impact to Oregon’s and the nation’s economy.”
Learn more at Boshart’s website daughterofatrucker.wordpress.com

 

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