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The International Longshore and Warehouse Union disputes there’s a slowdown. And committeeman Leal Sundet is not hopeful about negotiations, “I don’t see Hanjin staying in Portland in the short-run,” he said.
“They may come back, they’ve been to Portland before and they’ve left and come back. It’s easy for carriers to come and go and they’ve always done that in Portland and they always will.”
The relationship between management and labor has been rocky since Philippines-based International Container Terminal Service took control of Terminal 6 at the Port of Portland in 2011.
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Victor Crespo, Honduran dockworker union leader, was assaulted and had his life threatened by paramilitaries in September for his union activities at ICTSI’s new terminal in Puerto Cortes. Mr. Crespo was moved to a safe location by dockworker allies. No arrests have been made.A subsidiary of listed International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI) is set to take over the operations of a port in Honduras this month.
In a disclosure to the stock exchange on Tuesday, ICTSI said Operadora Portuaria Centroamerica S.A. de C.V. signed a takeover deed for the container and general cargo terminal of Puerto Cortes.
“The actual and physical takeover of the operations of the terminal shall take place before the end of November 2013,” added ICTSI.
In March ICTSI signed a 30-year contract to operate and maintain the container and cargo terminal of Puerto Cortes.
Text from the Business Mirror; photo from the International Transport Workers’ Federation(ITF)
Striking Nestle worker and union organizer Oscar López Triviño was shot by multiple paramilitaries in Colombia this week.
Our condolences go out to Mr. López’ family, friends and colleagues. Nuestras condolencias a los familiares, compañeros de trabajo y amigos del señor López.
Oscar López Triviño was murdered on November 9 in the Colombian city of Bugalagrande a day after he and other members of his union, SINALTRAINAL, received death threats from paramilitaries.
The union had been on hunger strike at Nestlé since November 5. The IUF — the global union federation for food workers — has joined with the national center CUT and unions around the world in condemning this assassination of yet another Colombian trade unionist.
They have called on the government to swiftly bring the perpetrators and organizers of this crime to justice through a full and transparent investigation, and to provide all necessary security for other union members at high risk.
Please support their appeal by clicking here.
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From The Daily News:
The Food Fight Against Hunger, a month-long food drive spearheaded by eight local organizations, collected a whopping 66,300 pounds of food for the Help Warehouse food bank, organizers reported last week.
The drive, which closed Oct. 31, “was a tremendous effort on the part of all the teams, and great timing, since our lean months are from August to November,” Alan Rose, spokesman for Lower Columbia CAP, said in a prepared statement.
Cowlitz PUD, Fibre Federal Credit Union, International Longshore Warehouse Union (ILWU), Kapstone, Lower Columbia College, NORPAC, Steelscape and Weyerhaeuser Co. and their 3,207 collective employees participated in the campaign.
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