PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Pacific Northwest grain terminal companies have given the longshore union extra time to accept what they say is their best and final offer.
The owners of a half-dozen terminals along the Columbia River and on Puget Sound extended the deadline to Dec. 8. The longshoremen had been asked to accept the deal by midnight Wednesday, but that deadline came and went without a lockout.
No additional talks have been scheduled between the union and the Pacific Northwest Grain Handlers Association, the consortium of grain-shipping companies that operate facilities in Portland; Seattle; Tacoma, Wash., and Vancouver, Wash.
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