Thank you for the question.
Unfortunately, we don't see this bill and the changes introduced to section 107 as improving the bargaining process. The special mediator, as we said earlier, lacks new special powers to assist the parties in bargaining. There is no early engagement of the special mediator. The special mediator comes in no later than 75 days after conciliation has begun, presumably to allow the conciliation process to play out.
We do not see these changes as improving the collective bargaining process, which we believe will improve the efficiency of the ports when real substantive issues can be dealt with at the table, rather than kicking the can down the road to successive rounds of bargaining and leaving major issues unresolved.