The three-day strike that paralyzed the port of Baltimore is over — for now.

Striking longshoremen agreed late Friday to resume working on the docks during a 90-day "cooling-off period" while negotiations continue on a new local contract.

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The ILWU explained it was taking this action because of “the Federation’s moderate, overly compromising policy positions on such important matters as immigration, labor law reform, health care reform, and international labor issues.”

The Longshore union also cited “attacks from other national [AFL-CIO] affiliates, who actively tried to undermine our contract struggle by filing legal claims and walking through our picket lines.”

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AFL-CIO: No Solidarity Charters for ILWU

As the AFL-CIO prepares for a convention where leaders say the goal is unprecedented solidarity with organizations outside the labor movement, the federation is turning its back on some inside the house of labor.

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ILWU Disafilliates From The AFL-CIO

Brother Trumka: It is with regret but resolve that we have come to the point where the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) must cut formal ties with the AFL-CIO.

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NYSA, ILA Prepare to Expand Work Force

The New York Shipping Association and International Longshoremen’s Association have
begun referrals for pre-clearance of candidates for New York-New Jersey dockworker
jobs that will open up during the next few months.

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Putting Workers on TV: MSNBC’s Chris Hayes on Bringing Labor to Prime Time

While the days when every city paper had a labor beat may be gone, Hayes is finding
new ways to get the issues facing workers into the national conversation.

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End run threatens port of Seattle, Tacoma.

A bevy of major shippers are finding a way to outflank the federal government’s Harbor Maintenance Tax, threatening thousands of jobs in the Puget Sound area and the lower
Columbia River.

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Working Families Flexibility Act of 2013 (H.R. 1406): Increases Flexibility For Employers, Not Workers.

If you were led to believe that the Working Families Flexibility Act will help working families, I can understand your confusion. Unfortunately, the title is misleading..

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A GAO report to Congressional committees finds major problems with the the Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC program).

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