BOARD OF INQUIRY REVIEWS LOCKOUT BUSH TAKES INITIAL STEPS TO INVOKING TAFT-HARTLEY ACT TO REOPEN WEST COAST PORTS

From: Roanoke Times & World News | Date: October 8, 2002| Author: ASSOCIATED PRESS ROANOKE TIMES STAFF WRITER LOIS CALIRI CONTRIBUTED TO THIS REPORT. | Copyright information

President Bush is expected to seek an 80-day suspension of a West Coast lockout that has crippled trade, after he reviews a report on the labor dispute's impact by a special panel he created Monday.

It would mark the first effort in a quarter-century to end a work stoppage under the Taft-Hartley Act.

Bush created a board of inquiry to determine the impact of the lockout and could petition the U.S. District Court in San Francisco as early as today to halt the lockout for 80 days, ...

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