Executive Council Statement
Support for ILWU Bargaining
… West Coast. The union is negotiating with the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA), the employer group that is attempting to slash workers' health benefits and introduce new technology aimed at outsourcing union jobs. Other employers, such as Wal-Mart, Home Depot and Target, have joined together in the West Coast Waterfront Coalition to support the PMA. The ILWU contract with PMA expired on July 1, 2002. In a show of good faith, the ILWU has continued to … the Bush Administration to extricate itself from this legitimate labor dispute and adopt a position of non-intervention. · Work with the ILWU to support upcoming mobilization efforts and Labor Day rallies in support of the longshore workers' …