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To: maceng2 who wrote (196204)10/8/2002 3:31:19 PM
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US PORTS STRIKE - UAW rejects need for govt intervention to re-open ports

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The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) rejected the need for government intervention to re-open ports along the West Coast, calling federal intervention in labour disputes "a bad idea".

"There is no need for a presidential board of inquiry or a court injunction to end the lockout of more than 10,000 dockworkers at West Coast ports, UAW president Ron Gettelfinger said.

"Federal intervention in labour disputes is a bad idea. It's an especially bad idea when carried out by a president who has tried repeatedly to limit - and even eliminate - the rights of workers to join unions and bargain collectively."

Gettelfinger said concern amongst dockworkers that the White House will "team up" with the Pacific Maritime Association, which represents shipping companies in the dispute, are justified.

"The best way to get our nation's freight moving again is for the PMA to accept the union's offer: Take the locks off the docks and return to the bargaining table," he said.

The UAW has some 710,000 active members and more than 500,000 retired members in North America.

At 4 pm, President George W Bush is set to outline the next step his administration plans to undertake in order to end the week-long shutdown of all 29 ports from San Diego to Seattle that is costing the US economy billions of dollars each day.

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