Seattle, Tacoma Strike Deadlines Pass
The Sept. 30 deadline for job actions at the ports of Seattle and Tacoma came and went with no strike called.
Talk of an imminent strike has been shelved as a result, she said.
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Gretchen Donart, a spokeswoman for Seattle Union Now, a local coalition of labor organizations, said her group is now in “some intermittent informal talks with the Port [of Seattle].”
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Seattle drivers are demanding that trucking company owners let them vote on Teamster representation for collective bargaining at companies where a majority of drivers have signed authorization cards. As a first step, they want a meeting where all of the interested parties sit down to work out an agreement.
