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From the Oregonian:
Today the bitter legal battle lands in U.S. District Court, where Judge Michael Simon will decide whether to hold the longshoremen in civil contempt. Even if he does, the union can win the war, judging by a recent case in Longview, Wash., where longshoremen shrugged off a federal contempt citation and got their way.
And yet, the longshoremen’s fight is about far more than two jobs. The West Coast’s 21,000 longshore union members are threatened by automation. They appear prepared to use every tool in their considerable arsenal to protect their turf and to acquire additional maintenance and repair jobs that can’t be automated away.
The rest of this article is available in The Oregonian. For a more accurate look at the reasons behind the dipute at Terminal 6, see Wednesday’s article in the Willamette Week.
As of Friday afternoon, 12 letters to the governor and port officials had surfaced objecting to APM Terminals Inc.’s bid to operate the port of Hampton Roads for 48 years.
The letters come largely from shipping lines that serve the port, but come from other groups, too.
Six were included in a letter from the Customs Brokers & International Freight Forwarders Association of Virginia Inc., a Norfolk-based trade group representing, among others, companies that function like international travel agents for cargo.
Two more were in a letter from the Tidewater Motor Truck Association, the collective voice of trucking companies operating in and around the port.
More at The Virginian-Pilot
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