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The European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) and International Dockworkers’ Council (IDC) have pledged their support in a meeting on 17 December, for dockworkers in Lisbon who have been under prolonged
attack from their government and employers, the ETF said in a media release.
Working conditions for Portuguese dockworkers, particularly those at the port of Lisbon, have been deteriorating since the government adopted the new Port Law on 1 February this year. The ETF and IDC
heard reports that the bargaining process has been frozen, and that employers have attempted to establish a new labour pool of non-union workers to replace existing professional dockworkers. On top of this,
47 dockworkers at Lisbon port have reportedly been dismissed with no rightful reason.
The ETF and IDC promised to support the union in tackling these deteriorating conditions, particularly to press for social dialogue, an end to union-busting, and the reinstatement of the 47 dismissed dockworkers as key aims for the campaign. Both organisations and the ITF see the Portuguese situation as part of a bigger challenge faced by dockworkers all over Europe. European...
The Federal Maritime Commission announced compromise agreements reached with two common carriers operating pure car carriers (PCCs) and roll on/roll off (RO/RO) vessels in U.S. inbound and outbound trades. Under these separate agreements, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd. (K Line), paid $1,100,000 in civil penalties and Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK Line), paid $1,225,000 in penalties. Both carriers are headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, and operate diverse fleets trading in the U.S.-foreign trades and globally.
The compromise agreements resolved allegations that K Line and NYK Line violated provisions of the Shipping Act, including section 10(a) of the Shipping Act, 46 U.S.C. § 41102(b), by acting in concert with other ocean common carriers with respect to the shipment of automobiles and other motorized vehicles by RO/RO or specialized car carrier vessels, where such agreement(s) had not been filed with the Commission or become effective under the Shipping Act. The compromise agreements also addressed related activities and violations. Commission staff alleged that these practices persisted over a period of several years and involved numerous U.S. trade lanes, including from and/or to...
Source: Talking Union
From Port Strategy:
International Container Terminal Services’ (ICTSI) flagship operation, Manila International Container Terminal (MICT), has implemented a new workforce management system to improve manpower deployment.
The new Microster Workforce Management Solution aims at optimizing “employee rostering”, enhancing the workforce environment, and improving management’s decision-making abilities.
ICTSI says Microster has advanced capabilities such as accessing self-service information, including manning schedules, and the use of interactive voice response when outside the terminal to update personnel work status.
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From IAM District 751 leadership to its members:
Dear Brothers and Sisters:
If you have not already heard, we want to let you know that the International is forcing a vote on Boeing’s latest proposal on January 3, 2014.
Due to the massive takeaways, your District 751 leadership is united with a recommendation that you reject this proposal. You need to look at the facts of the economic destruction you would have to live under for the next 11 years, without any opportunity to change any provisions of the contract.
We also want to point out that Boeing’s ultimatum demanding these concessions comes at a time when the company is experiencing record profits and backlogs, not to mention the $10 billion stock buy back the Boeing Board of Directors approved just this last week.
Here are some of the major objections we have to the Boeing proposal:
There’s no clear statement of work, and the language in the Boeing proposal clearly states that the company reserves the right to subcontract or outsource “certain 777X work packages in whole or part.”
Boeing leaders have told us they do not intend to use any of our current wing line mechanics to do...
Striking Nestle worker and union organizer Oscar López Triviño was shot by multiple paramilitaries in Colombia last month. For years Colombia has been considered one of the most dangerous countries in the world for trade unionists, with 3,000 killed since the mid-1980s.Two years after a major free-trade agreement was signed between the United States and Colombia, a key roadmap aimed at cleaning up the latter’s atrocious labor practices is failing on the ground, two members of the U.S. House of Representatives warned recently.
Reps. George Miller (D-Calif.) and James McGovern (D-Mass.), both members of a congressional oversight committee on the issue, recently returned from a fact-finding mission in Colombia aimed at gauging how things had changed for workers and organized labor. But in a report released Tuesday, they warn that reforms have had little impact thus far.
“The Government of Colombia has fallen woefully short of fulfilling its obligations … Many of those who testified before the delegation reported that conditions have worsened since the implementation of the U.S.-Colombia [free trade agreement],” the report states.
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