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More than 300 ILWU members from West Coast ports marched at the gate of Kalama Export Company in Washington to demand equal pension and welfare benefits for KEX grain workers. The workers at the Kalama terminal receive an inferior health plan and retirement account than those at the company's Portland terminal.
The dispute is ongoing and centers on labor conditions at the grain export facility.
Labor disputes at Pacific Northwest grain export terminals can disrupt loading schedules and export flows. Any strike would be a modest but real risk to US grain shipments.
ilwu.orgadminDec 19, 2017Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
After 823 past logistics events, Wheat (SRW) moved a median -0.2% over 5 sessions (46% higher; middle half -1.5% to +1.2%), and -0.1% over 20.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.
