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October 6, 1999 8:00 AM, EDT

The Sept. 30 deadline for job actions at the ports of Seattle and Tacoma came and went with no strike called.

Gretchen Donart, a spokeswoman for Seattle Union Now, a local coalition of labor organizations, said her group is now in “some intermittent informal talks with the Port [of Seattle].”

Talk of an imminent strike has been shelved as a result, she said.

Seattle drivers are demanding that trucking company owners let them vote on Teamster representation for collective bargaining at companies where a majority of drivers have signed authorization cards. As a first step, they want a meeting where all of the interested parties sit down to work out an agreement.

For the full story, see the Oct. 4 print edition of Transport Topics. .