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7A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2015 Proposal seeks to try Wolf panel discusses and keep ports open ‘wolf-friendly beef’ during labor disputes By DAN WHEAT Capital Press By DAN WHEAT Capital Press PASCO, Wash. — A bill setting up automatic triggers to start the Taft-Hartley Act process in the event of future labor or management disrup- tions at U.S. ports is being proposed by U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse. The Washington state Re- publican announced his En- suring Continued Operations and No Other Major Inci- dents, Closures or Slowdowns (ECONOMICS) Act at East- erday Farms in Pasco earlier this month. Easterday, a fam- ily potato farm and packing operation, is one of thousands of farms throughout the West that were impacted by the slowdown of cargo at 29 West Coast ports from May 2014 through February. It was caused by conten- tious contract negotiations EHWZHHQWKH3DFL¿F0DULWLPH Association and the Interna- tional Longshore and Ware- house Union. Newhouse was joined for his announcement by Wash- ington Farm Bureau Presi- dent Mike LaPlant and Matt Harris, assistant executive director of the Washington State Potato Commission. Mandates mediation The bill would mandate mediation in labor disputes and require a board of inqui- ry be convened when certain economic triggers are met. The board would be required to report to the president and the public to recommend whether a Taft-Hartley ju- dicial injunction should be sought to order an end to a dispute. The president or state governors would still have to seek the injunction. The triggers are: • When four or more ports are involved. • When 6,000 or more port workers are affected. • When U.S. exports drop 15 percent or more in one month or 5 percent or more in two consecutive months. Any single trigger could start the process, but the bill is still in draft stage and Ne- Ben Margot/AP File Photo Container ships wait at the dock to be unloaded at the Port of Oakland in February. A monthslong work slowdown clogged export traffic through 29 West Coast ports. Legislation under consideration in Con- gress is aimed at preventing a replay of the slow- down. whouse is seeking feedback for improvements, he told Capital Press. He said he hopes to introduce the bill within a couple of months. 7KH GH¿QLWLRQ RI VWULNH would be broadened throughout U.S. labor law to include slowdowns, lock- outs or threatened strikes or lockouts. A board of inquiry could be triggered for any of those. The bill is meant to com- plement HR 3398, the Pro- tecting Orderly and Respon- sible Transit of Shipment (PORTS) Act, authored by Newhouse and U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert, R-Wash. The PORTS Act, and a compan- ion measure in the Senate, would allow governors of seaport states and territories to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act to order dock workers to work. The PORTS Act in- cludes slowdowns, not just strikes or lockouts, in the Taft-Hartley process. The Taft-Hartley Act, approved by Congress in 1947, limited the power of labor unions and authorized the president to intervene in strikes that threaten national health and safety. “There is a lot of interest in preventing the kind of eco- nomic losses we experienced this past season,” Newhouse said. “We still haven’t re- gained (the markets of) some of the commodities that were lost so it’s still costing pro- ducers today.” Costly slowdown The slowdown cost up to $2.5 billion per day and contributed to an anemic 0.2 percent annualized growth rate in the first quar- ter of this year, U.S. Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., said in introducing a bill last May that would set up an early warning system of abnor- mal port operations. Exports and imports of many commodities through the West Coast were impact- ed by last year’s slowdown. The Washington state apple industry lost $100 million in sales, according to the Northwest Horticultural Council. Total agricultural ex- ports of fruits, vegetables and meats totaled almost $400 million per week last December, according to the U.S. Agriculture Transpor- tation Coalition. West Coast exports dropped 20.5 percent LQ WKH ¿UVW TXDUWHU RI according to the Federal Re- serve. “Two parties should not be able to hold a whole econ- omy hostage,” Newhouse said. “I am trying to keep a sense of urgency in Congress to avoid this happening in the future.” ELLENSBURG, Wash. — The state’s wolf advisory group continued discussing how to help one of its rancher members who lost more than 300 sheep to wolves last year. The group also talked, during a September meeting at Central Washington Uni- versity, about a “wolf-friend- ly beef” label for meat from cattle raised following wolf protection measures. In a meeting in early Sep- tember in Tumwater, the group had reached a tenta- tive agreement to help ranch- er member, Dave Dashiell of Hunter, who estimates he lost more than 300 sheep in July 2014 to the Huckleber- ry wolf pack in northeastern Washington state. Dashiell was not at the meeting in Ellensburg, but his brother Stevens County Commissioner Don Dashiell was. He also is a rancher. Don Dashiell said the sheep were worth about $200 apiece, more than $60,000 total. Unable to find suitable grazing land this year, Dave Dashiell moved his flock to a pasture north of Pasco where he’s spent $10,000 per month on hay. Don Dashiell called it an emergency short- term option that will put his brother out of business in the long-term. The state Department of Fish and Wildlife killed the pack’s breeding female but dropped plans to kill three more wolves in the pack af- ter Dave Dashiell removed the sheep. The department also compensated Dashiell for 30 to 40 sheep it con- firmed as killed by wolves. Hancock Timber Re- source Group offered Dave Dashiell land unsuitable for grazing but didn’t want his sheep back on the land it leased to Dashiell where the slaughter occurred because it was a “public relations nightmare for Hancock,” Don Dashiell told Capital Press prior to the meeting. During the meeting, the group discussed trying to help Dave Dashiell find suitable grazing land, haz- Dan Wheat/Capital Press Francine Madden, conflict resolution consultant, and state Rep. Shelly Short, R-Colville, talk at Washington wolf advisory group meeting in Ellensburg, Sept. 30. ing methods on wolves and what should be on a check- list of actions prior to killing wolves. Paula Swedeen, carni- vore policy lead in Olympia for Conservation Northwest, suggested helping ranch- ers by having a label for “wolf-friendly beef” from cattle raised with department wolf protection measures. Dan Paul, state director of The Humane Society of the United States, said as with cage-free eggs, some con- sumers would be willing to pay more for beef raised with wolf protection measures. Jack Field, executive vice president of Washington Cattlemen’s Association, said the group should fo- cus on checklists of ways to mitigate and prevent wolves from killing livestock and of efforts that must be tried before the state kills wolves. Trent Roussin, a state wolf biologist, said summer wild- ¿UHV PDGH ZROI PRQLWRULQJ DQGWDJJLQJGLI¿FXOW7ZRDGXOW female wolves were trapped in an area burned in the Carpen- WHU5RDG¿UHKHVDLG2QHZDV a healthy 75 pounds despite missing half of a rear leg, he said. It hasn’t been determined if they are part of the Huckle- berry Pack or a distinct pack to the north, he said. Roussin also reported that one of the Teanaway Pack wolves moved into the eastern end of Whatcom County, making it the sec- ond confirmed wolf sighting in western Washington. 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