News / New bid for reconciliation on contracts as US west coast port congestion worsens

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Employers and dockworkers on the US west coast are set to return to the negotiating table, after beginning 2015 with a renewal of hostilities.

The US Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) confirmed early today that it was set to respond to a joint request from both employer body Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) and the workers’ International Longshoremen and Warehouse Union (ILWU) for help in negotiations over the renewal of a master contract that expired at the end of last May.

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