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The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) had a high-level meeting in Washington, D.C. on 12 September, which was also attended by ITF president and Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) national secretary Paddy Crumlin and ITF maritime coordinator Steve Cotton.
Mr Crumlin reported on the events leading up to Patrick Stevedores’ decision to fully automate its Port Botany Terminal in Australia. Mr Crumlin said announcement of the decision took place shortly after the company entered into a new contract with the union, having not given the union any notice during the contract negotiations of the massive reduction proposed to the workforce. Patrick management contended it was not obliged to do so and would execute the change without any formal agreement with the union.
The meeting was unanimous in condemnation of this approach to introducing this type of change. The meeting determined that formal agreement between management and union had to be finalised before any further automation could take place in workplaces covered by the unions in attendance. The meeting determined that any other approach was...
Members of the legislature have criticized how fast the McDonnell administration is pushing consideration of business proposals to operate the state's publicly owned port terminals, which play a large role in Virginia's economy. Pictured: Hampton RoadsThe proposed fast-track outsourcing of Virginia’s publicly owned Hampton Roads port operations will hurt maritime businesses and local governments in the region, speakers told a state legislative panel Monday.
“The proposal would clearly be a stake in the breast” of Portsmouth, the city’s mayor, Kenneth I. Wright, told a standing-room-only meeting of the House Appropriations Committee.
The city could lose 2 percent of its real estate tax revenue under one of the proposals, he said, adding: “The loss would be nothing short of catastrophic.”
The terminals are “critical to the economic well-being” of the commonwealth, said Art Moye, executive vice president of the Virginia Maritime Association, representing 400 companies with 70,000 workers.
More than 70 percent of the group’s members are against privatizing the Port of Virginia’s terminal operations, Moye said.
“We’re the people that are in the trenches...
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