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Source: AFL-CIO
Source: Coworker.org
The Fair Work Commission yesterday banned the Maritime Union of Australia from carrying out any unprotected industrial action in Sydney for one month.
The MUA was unhappy with the NSW Government’s recently announced Sydney Ferry Future Plans, released last Wednesday. It pledged to add more ferries, upgrade wharves and introduce a new timetable.
Yesterday morning, ferry services in Sydney were cancelled from 10am to 2pm.
The MUA’s Sydney branch secretary Paul McAleer said the commission did not seem to understand that requests for meetings with HCF representatives to discuss planned changes were refused.
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Source: LA Times
Source: Forward
Excerpts from an editorial in the Columbian:
Washingtonians are learning a lot more these days about bridges and commercial trade, as we realize that virtually every product we use comes to us by truck, much of it through ports. The Associated Press reported recently that $10 billion in freight crosses the Skagit River annually, a great deal of it headed for California and Mexico via our Interstate 5 Bridge. Canadian vehicles using that bridge have almost doubled in the past decade; in 2012 the total was almost 2 million.
The economically harmful traffic congestion in Mount Vernon was caused by a bridge accident, and the problem could be mostly relieved in a month or so. The bridge congestion here has grown for decades through neglect of infrastructure. The longer the inaction continues, the more it will cost Clark County in commerce and jobs.
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Excerpts rom the Journal of Commerce:
The International Transport Workers’ Federation has repeated its concerns, as well as its member unions’ concerns, regarding the lockout of International Longshore and Warehouse Union workers at the United Grain terminal in Washington’s Port of Vancouver in Washington and the Columbia Grain terminal in Oregon’s Port of Portland.
The ITF has now laid out its views on the dispute in a formal complaint to Masami Iijima, president and CEO of Mitsui, which owns United Grain. The complaint condemns the actions of United Grain’s management and urges Mitsui to end the lockout.
The ITF is also making a formal complaint to Marubeni, which operates Columbia Grain and has locked out ILWU workers there since early May.
More at the Journal of Commerce
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