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Port of Portland's Terminal 6 is privately operated by Philippines-based ICTSI, which signed a 25-year lease with the port in 2010.
Excerpted from KPTV:
A labor dispute forced the shutdown of container Terminal 6 at the Port of Portland on Thursday.
The longshoremen are not picketing at this point. The dispute involves the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW).
The ILWU describes it as “an internal dispute between Philippines-based port management company ICTSI and the ILWU over ICTSI’s refusal to comply with an arbitrator’s order.” An ILWU spokesman said the port continues try to “interject itself in the operation of the terminal.”
An ILWU spokeswoman said no one walked off the job, and that the port “interjected itself and turned the trucks away.”
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From today’s Journal of Commerce:
Operating engineers and SIU to unload ammunition from ship calling at Charleston
The International Longshoremen’s Association may have to take on the U.S. Marines to protect its jurisdiction in the Southeast.
ILA President Harold Daggett said the Marines intend to have workers represented by the International Union of Operating Engineers and the Seafarers International Union unload ammunition from a vessel that will call at the Port of Charleston this summer.
Daggett, a guest speaker at the 35th convention of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union in Coronado, Calif., said his East Coast union has traditionally performed that work. Ken Riley, president of ILA Local 1422 in Charleston, added that his members have been specially trained to handle this dangerous cargo.
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