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[NOTE: Honduran union leader Victor Crespo has been threatened for trying to negotiate a collective bargaining agreement with ICTSI, the same terminal operator that took over operations at the Port of Portland's Terminal 6 in 2010.]
From Morning Star Online:
Killing payback for port collective bargain fight
The father of Honduran trade union leader Victor Crespo has been murdered, the International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) said.
Mr Crespo Snr died in hospital following an attack on he and other family members by an armed assailant who ran them down in a stolen car.
Mr Crespo Jnr had himself been threatened with death for trade union work in northern town Puerto Cortes.
Following a murder attempt in September 2013, he was evacuated to a third country to allow him to continue his work as president of the Syndicated Union of Dock Workers (SGTM).
The ITF said it appeared the same forces that wanted him dead then had targeted his father Victor Manuel Crespo Puerto.
Death threats have also been made against other SGTM leadership.
Trade unions believe these were connected to the fight for a collective bargaining agreement...
From the Columbian:
A keel-laying ceremony Friday afternoon at Vigor Industrial on Portland’s Swan Island marked the start of construction for the first of three new tugboats being built for Tidewater Barge Lines of Vancouver. The tugs will be the first newly built vessels for the company in nearly 30 years.
Marc Schwartz, Tidewater’s maintenance and engineering manager, displayed plans for the new tugboat and set a ceremonial weld in front of Tidewater and Vigor officials and construction workers during Friday’s ceremony.
Source: IndustriALL Global Union
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