FMCS hosts a White House labor-management summit meeting on December 5, recognizing labor-management partnerships in key industries and honoring important, recent collective bargining agreements. Among the honorees are leaders of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA), the United States Maritime Alliance and the New York Shipping Association for working together during extended collective bargaining in 2012-13 under FMCS auspices to avert a possibly crippling work stoppage in U.S. Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports.
