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PMA and ILWU File Joint Motion in US District Court in Oregon Seeking Immediate Intervention Against Philippines-based ICTSI for Continuing to Violate Collective Bargaining Agreement in Portland
PMA Member Carriers Have Demanded that ICTSI Comply with Contract it Signed when Joining PMA
On Monday, June 18, the Pacific Maritime Association and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, the employer group and union that load and unload cargo on the West Coast, filed a joint motion seeking a temporary restraining order and injunction in a lawsuit that was filed on June 13 in United States District Court in Oregon against Philippines-based ICTSI, which operates Terminal 6 in Portland.
This is an unprecedented step in the near 80-year relationship between the ILWU and PMA. The lawsuit is an effort to get PMA member company ICTSI to comply with the collective bargaining agreement (Pacific Coast Longshore and Clerks’ Agreement, or PCL&CA) that it signed onto upon becoming a PMA member. The PCL&CA covers approximately 70 waterfront employers in the 26 commercial ports of Oregon, Washington and California. ICTSI gave written assurances to the PMA when it...
Excerpts from the Portland Business Journal and KATU:
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union on Saturday issued a rebuke of a regional National Labor Relations Board ruling claiming it’s been employing delay tactics to slow operations at the Port of Portland’s container terminal as part of an ongoing labor dispute.
The ILWU, though, on Saturday said the NLRB ruling was one-sided, based only on ICTSI’s side of the story “that has not yet been tested by a judge of any kind.”
It also denied that it is engaged in an intentional work slowdown, saying Friday’s production at T6 was “well within the norm,” while placing the blame for any delays on the shoulders of ICTSI. Steamship lines are also members of the Pacific Maritime Association and have asked ICTSI to comply with the longshore union’s labor pact.
“ICTSI has refused their instructions,” the ILWU wrote. “If steamship companies leave Portland it is because of ICTSI, not the ILWU.”
Read the rest at the Portland Business Journal
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