碩士 / 國立中正大學 / 勞工所 / 97 / New agreement has been conducted regarding to the collective bargaining between Pacific Maritime Association which represented the management and International Longshore and Warehouse Union which represented the labor on the US west coast port in May 2002. Both management and labor could not reach consensus, and the consultations were deteriorated. The management had decided to close all the west coast terminals in the US. More than 200 freighters which routed through the US west coast had been trapped and more than million US dollars worth of the freights and containers were also been stacked without circulations. The action had caused negative impacts to the national economy and security, and generated global economical crisis.
This research aims to evaluate the entire management and labor conflict issues, and further to comprehend the causes of labor disputes, controversial act, consultation process, and outcome. Furthermore to analyzing the legitimacy of the means from both sides as well as to comprehend the president’s endeavor by exploiting the cooling-off period to ease the confrontation.
The research methods were through the case study, media news, the information from the management and labor websites, books, and dissertation publications.
Conclusion：
1. The historical relations between ILWU and PMA from confrontation to collaboration
2. The strategies between both sides: (1) from competition to compromise. (2) tactical planning – the management wished to extend the battlefield to the government, and used strong means shutting down the ports without any consultation while the labor side sought for the alliance tactics to elaborate the issues
3. Government’s attitude from the early non-intervention in labor disputes to interfere in labor disputes
4. The advantages of labor disputes system in United States are to (1) stipulate the handling of the labor disputes in contract stage (2) start the emergency labor disputes mechanism in time (3) stipulate legitimacy of the management to take “defensive lockout” behavior.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/097CCU05350015 |
| Date | January 2009 |
| Creators | Taur Lee, 李桃 |
| Contributors | 許繼峰 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 92 |
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