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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. trade czar Katherine Tai is meeting with unions, industry executives and advocacy groups as Washington faces mounting pressure to back a temporary waiver of intellectual property rights to accelerate COVID-19 vaccinations around the world.
FILE PHOTO: Katherine C. Tai addresses the Senate Finance committee hearings to examine her nomination to be United States Trade Representative, with the rank of Ambassador, in Washington, DC February 25, 2021. Bill O Leary/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
U.S. Trade Representative Tai, who helped broker Sunday’s agreement in a thorny trade case involving South Korean battery makers, is seeking input before a virtual World Trade Organization meeting on the issue on Wednesday.
/PRNewswire/ The Teamsters have reached an agreement in principle for 415 mechanics and related classifications at Allegiant Air. After the agreement in.
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By City News Service
Apr 14, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Dockworkers stopped servicing trucks owned by Universal Logistics Holdings at a Port of Los Angeles terminal today in solidarity with truck drivers who went on strike Monday against the company.
Members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union joined the action by the Teamsters, who say some drivers were fired after voting to form a union.
Phillip Sanfield of the Port of Los Angeles told City News Services that one of the port s seven terminals had “minimal to moderate traffic disruption by the workers who are “not servicing the trucks that are being targeted by the Teamsters. Sanfield could not quantify the cargo impact at the port, but said it was minimal.