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About 80 workers at Newcastle’s main coal loader will strike for eight hours tonight after this week’s negotiations failed to see a resolution to outstanding issues.
The Maritime Union of Australia held talks with Port Waratah Coal Services again yesterday.
It is the latest round of industrial action in a month of disputes involving PWCS.
The Maritime Union of Australia’s Glen Williams says the key concerns are around the resolution of workplace procedures.
“It is very disappointing and very frustrating, ” he said.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-06-07/strikes-continue-at-pwcs/4739208
This photo provided by the International Transport Workers’ Federation shows ILWU and supporters at Mitsui headquarters in Hong Kong May 10, 2013. Mitsui owns United Grain in Vancouver, WA. The protest of the lockouts also stopped by the Hong Kong offices of Marubeni, owner of Columbia Grain in Portland.
The Columbian newspaper’s June 7 article titled “Union, grain firms remain deadlocked” highlights the support that locked-out ILWU Locals 4 and 8 members are receiving from global unions. Excerpts:
Ray Familathe, the union’s international vice president for the mainland, said in a Thursday statement to The Columbian that he’s “traveled to Japan, Australia and Hong Kong, and everywhere I go, union workers send enthusiastic messages of solidarity to the longshoremen and women who are locked out in Vancouver and Portland.”
In late May, the International Transport Workers’ Federation stepped into the fray, sending a letter to Masami Iijima, president and CEO of Mitsui & Co. The organization, which represents about 700 unions worldwide encompassing more than 4.5 million transport workers, said it considers the lockout in Vancouver, based on an accusation...
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