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It says the payroll for the nearly 13,600 ILWU members on the West Coast was about $1.4 billion in 2013.

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The PMA says full-time workers earn an average of $142,000 plus benefits of $82,000 per year. Wages for ILWU longshoremen reportedly are not part of the current dispute. 'The White House should have stepped up before the (Christmas shopping) season,' said Nick Vyas, a professor at University of Southern California Marshall School of Business. Bush invoked Taft-Hartley to end the 2002 lockout of the West Coast ports.Ī federal mediator has been involved in the negotiations since January, but some observers have been critical of the White House for not taking a more hands-on approach sooner. President Obama hasn't indicated he'll use the Taft-Hartley Act to end the standoff should it result in a strike or lockout. The two sides imposed a 'news blackout' prior to Perez's arrival. Labor Secretary Tom Perez arrived in San Francisco Monday and will participate in negotiations in an attempt to resolve the dispute, which started nine months ago. The slowdown complicates other forms of transportation as well. At the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif., the nation's largest, 32 ships held at anchor Tuesday morning despite the resumption of loading operations at overcrowded docks stacked higher than normal with containers awaiting cranes, railcars and truck trailers.