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The accident happened at Columbia Grain’s facility at the Port of Wilma in Whitman County, WAA 41-year-old Lewiston, Idaho man was hospitalized Monday after falling from an in-ground storage container at Columbia Grain Company at the Port of Wilma Complex and is believed to have suffered a broken back and wrist.
The Whitman County Sheriff’s Office reports Robert C. Richard was working at Columbia Grain when the cover to the storage container gave way causing him to fall 18 feet onto a concrete floor. Clarkston paramedics took Richard to an area hospital and the industrial accident remains under investigation.
From the Moscow-Pullman Daily News
Nine boats with longshore union supporters tried to block a grain ship at the Port of Kalama on Tuesday morning, causing the Coast Guard to board one boat and issue warnings to all the others.
The incident is a spillover of a Vancouver dispute between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and United Grain. Protesters were trying to impede a grain ship that loaded in Vancouver and then headed to Kalama for more grain.
“We’re not ever going to tolerate a scab boat, and it’s going to escalate” if any vessel serviced by non-union workers tries to dock, said Jake Whiteside, president of Longview-based Local 21 of the ILWU. “I’m paying very close attention.”
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Workers fighting for improved pay and decent working conditions at the Port of Hong Kong have voted to call off their industrial action after accepting an improved wage offer and promises of further negotiations on working conditions – as well as an assurance that there will be no retaliation against workers who participated in the strike. Full details of the settlement are included in a statement from the Union of HongKong Dockers (UHKD) below.
Responding to the news, ITF president Paddy Crumlin commented: “The Union of Hong Kong Dockers, supported by the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions, has won a real victory: a pay rise and promises of continuing dialogue on working conditions and health and safety. Their bravery has been rewarded. We in the ITF and the wider union movement are proud to have been able to mobilise the international support they deserved and needed.”
He continued: “We trust that Hutchison Port Holdings will now address the issues around the dignity and working conditions of the workers at the port.”
Sharan Burrow, general secretary of the ITUC (International Trade Union Confederation), added: “This is an important result for the dock...
Mining giant Rio Tinto, through its subsidiary Coal & Allied, is a shareholder in PWCS.Workers at Port Waratah Coal Services (PWCS) in Newcastle are poised to launch protected industrial action after an impasse in negotiations, the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) says.
Workers at the Kooragang Island and Carrington sites have voted on a motion to take action and it has received strong support from the workers, MUA assistant national secretary Ian Bray says.
“PWCS anti-union proposals are seeking to undermine the safety and health of workers, tear up longstanding settlement procedure of contract issues, and radically change the scope of matters that can be arbitrated,” Mr Bray said.
Talks between union members and PWCS have been continuing for eight months.
Mining giant Rio Tinto, through its subsidiary Coal & Allied, is a shareholder in PWCS.
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