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Juneau Longshoremen Larry Englund, Francisco Velasco and Daniel Churchill haul in the tag and heaving lines, attached to one of the ship’s heavy mainlines. Capital City Weekly photo.Though the work can be arduous, and the hours long, both Iver Nore and Dennis Young enjoy it.
“I like being outside,” Nore said, though admitted this past summer wasn’t exactly the most fun with all the rain.
“I just love it,” Young said, though he knows firsthand how dangerous the work can be. During his first summer in Juneau, one of the main lines he was hauling snapped, tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in one of his knees. “It was the first time the orthopedic surgeon had ever seen an ACL in three pieces. Those lines are that dangerous. Every time I fear for my life.”
Young explained that it’s a very physical job. He said that with low tides and other factors like larger main lines, three men can be pulling upwards of more than 250 pounds.
“You’re tired after pulling eight lines,” Nore said. “When there’s four ships in, your arms are pretty well rubber when you’re done.”
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Star-Bulletin archives from November 2006 show the news that pulled the rug out from under hundreds of ILWU workers who had believed repeated assurances from Del Monte that their jobs were secure until 2008.The Hawaii Supreme Court affirmed an Intermediate Court of Appeals ruling in favor of former workers of Del Monte Fresh Produce Hawaii and its union, ILWU Local 142.
The ICA ruling upheld a decision by the Hawaii Labor Relations Board, citing bad faith bargaining by Del Monte and awarding them more than $700,000 in additional severance already paid to the workers in 2007.
In Jan. 2006, Del Monte announced plans to shut down its pineapple plantation in late 2008. The ILWU then requested and began bargaining with Del Monte on the effects of the closure.
By the end of 2006, the company accelerated its plans to shut down operations and announced it would close the plantation in Jan. 2007, giving employees only 60 days notice prior to the layoff.
The HLRB ruled that Del Monte breached its statutory duty to bargain in good faith.
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The Greenfield project, which commenced construction in November 2011, includes a 2.2-million-bushel, upright concrete grain elevator, a 42,000-ton dry fertilizer facility and a 1.5-mile loop track large enough to accommodate 125 cars. The Dakota Southern Railroad, which will service the shuttle facility, was recently upgraded to handle unit trains. Photo by Gavilon.Gavilon’s new grain and dry fertilizer facility in Kimball, SD, will handle corn, soybean, milo, and wheat, and distribute urea, monoammonium phosphate, and potash.
Gavilon Liberty Grain, LLC celebrated the grand opening of its Kimball, SD, facility. The high-speed grain and dry fertilizer shuttle facility — Gavilon’s first in the state of South Dakota — is located near the intersection of U.S. Interstate 90 and state Highway 45 in Brule County, SD. The grain facility will handle corn, soybeans, milo and wheat, and the fertilizer facility will distribute urea, monoammonium phosphate and potash. The facility unloaded its first unit train of fertilizer in approximately 10 hours earlier in October.
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