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[ ] R E P O R T TWIC Program Reimbursement by CFS Underway In 2007, the Container Freight Station (CFS) Fund Trasteen approved a ptx~gram that would reimburse all eligible DeepSea ILA membern for the application tees tor the Tral~pot tation Workers Identity Card (TWIC) The resources for this program would come from the Carrier assessments paid into the CFS fired The prog~ am to reimburse the ILA was put into effect at the begim~ing of 2008, with the local Port AssociatioD~ and some Direct Employers handling the dish ibution ot the filnds To date, the CFS has approved and dishibuted lunds m the amount of $2,142,39250 covering the application fees ot 17,064 ILA membern fiom Maine to Texas The procens ot apptx~ving and dishibuting the filnds to the local Port Assccia lions has gone 2008 USMX Legal News very smoothly We have heard of very few instances where there has been difficulty in reimbursing or paymg the Transportation Security Administration 0"SA) direcdy for a qualified ILA memb~s TWIC We would like to thank the local port AsSC~lations for their diligence m making the acquisition of the TWIC cards for the ILA an easy process We recognize that dealing with the TSA through its vendor Lockheed Martin was not an easy task¸ By now, most of the ports have either gone live with TWIC or have been given their start dalen to implement TWIC as the primary means ot identification and accens to marine ternninals Again, there have been some isolated instances where some glitches have occurred, but for the most part this has gone reasonably w e l l & Updates Civil RICO Case In last yeal's USMX Repol t (Vol I, No 1, Dec 2007), USMX reported that MILA expected the Government to ignore the admonition of Judge I Leo Glasser and indude MILA and othel i1~ litutiona] detendants m its Second Amended Complaint The Government did lust what MILA expected Fewer than three hom~ before the midnight deadlina on December 31, 2007, the Government filed its Second Amended Complaint, which continued to l~ame MILA and other organizations as nominal defendants MILA renewed its motion to dismiss on February I1 and urged the district court to dismiss MILA with prejudice, since it did not share in any way the propose of the alleged RICO Waterfront Fnterpnse The Govern merit had conceded this fact m open court and did not retract that admission in its May 16 answering brief MILA's motion and the dismissal motioD~ of other defendants were fully submitted to the Court by June 30, 2008 Tile par tie~ are still awaiting a decision by J u d g e G l a s s e t ( c o n t i n u e d o n P a g e 5 ) PAGE4 [t is also our underntanding that there have been instances where some TWICs have been denied by the TSA In these cases, the appeals process that is in effect appears to be working We have received very few complaints on this front¸ Because of the delay by the TSA in actual maplementation of the monitoring program at the marine temainals, we had delayed the auditing process Now that the ptx~grams to monitor are underway, tile CFS Trustees will ptx~ceed to audit the monies that have been disttibuted to el~ure that they are ptx~perly accounted for The CFS Trustees will contact the local Port Assccmtions to arrange to audit their TWIC progran~ We lully expect that th~s audit program will start in early 2009 OIeA Sweedlund Executh,e Vice President & COO MITAGS Training (continued trom Page 3) diesel electrical generator, container relrigeration, RTG, and experienced and inex p e r i e n c e d c ~ n e o p e r a t i o n , which utilize state o~the art simulator equipment Students learn through a combination of dassroom lectures and hands on training¸ In 2008, the ILA/ USMX program at MITAGS provided important training for I72 longshore workers from the various USMX member ports¸ > T h o m a s P S u l I i ~ n Director, Labor ReIatlons

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