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Port of Long Beach officials have signed a sister port agreement with the world’s fifth-busiest seaport, South Korea’s Busan Port Authority, the Long Beach port announced Tuesday.
While the pact is not legally binding, there is the potential for more trade opportunities with South Korea, Long Beach’s third-biggest trading partner overall, said spokesman Art Wong.
Long Beach also has sister port agreements with China’s Port of Qingdao and Taiwan’s ports of Hualien and Taichung, as well as memorandums of understanding with the Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, the Panama Canal Authority, Yantian International Container Terminals in Shenzhen, China, and China Merchants Holdings International, that country’s largest public seaport operator.
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Locked-out ILWU members and supporters have taken their message to the water. Union members have been locked out by Japanese corporations Marubeni and Mitsui. Photo by ILWU Local 4
Excerpts from the Journal of Commerce:
A federal judge has found the International Longshore and Warehouse Union in civil contempt of court for ignoring an order to stop waterborne picketing at grain barges.
[In addition to issuing suspended fines], the judge has also directed the U.S. Marshals Service to “take any and all necessary actions, including but not limited to the use of reasonable force” to ensure the union abides by the order.
“Today’s ruling is yet another example of how the legal complex in this country protects foreign companies from American workers who resist the loss of good jobs,” said Leal Sundet, ILWU coast committeeman, in a published remark. “The NLRB and the courts enjoin the opposition of workers and try to silence us with the threat of contempt fines. Labor law in this country does not protect the working lives of men and women – it reinforces corporate power.”
The NLRB’s administrative hearing against the union is scheduled for Jan. 14, 2014....
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