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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
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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.
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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
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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-
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female wolves were trapped in
an area burned in the Carpen-
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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. The
other one was a female wolf
struck by a vehicle on Inter-
state 90 near North Bend in
April after it had been shot
in the right rear leg, appar-
ently several weeks earlier.
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