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ILWU Local 19 has been fighting to keep the area around the Port of Seattle industry-based rather than congested by non-shipping interests. A recent editorial by the Seattle Times’ Danny Westneat backed up their case:
I support bringing back the NBA. But the idea of turning surrounding blocks, especially to the south or west where the Port is, into an L.A. Live glitz district ought to be sent back where it came from. The city, as a condition for final approval of the arena, ought to just zone it out of existence.
Because [Sodo business owner Eli] Reich is right. What kind of jobs do we want in this city? At the least we ought to be trying to keep some of the ones we’ve had since the 1800s.
We don’t need to make “Sodo Live.” It already is.
Read the full article at the Seattle Times
Amid scorching policy debates in Washington over immigration, government finances and gun legislation, a potentially transformative trade agreement being negotiated for the Asia-Pacific region isn’t the stuff of banner headlines or Twitter trends.
But the talks, led by the United States and involving 10 other countries (11 if Japan is allowed in, as expected), to form the Trans-Pacific Partnership have the capability to reshape the region geopolitically, given the scope and commercial value of the proposed free-trade zone.
More at China Daily
The modification of two Maersk shipping routes to pass through the Suez Canal rather than Panama is temporary, says a Maersk spokesman.
The diversion from the Panama Canal to an alternate route has contributed to a decline in revenue for the canal administration, The Maersk Line, has used the waterway for over 90 years to transport goods to different continents, reports ‘Newsroom Panama’.
Since April 1, 2013 the line has temporarily suspended its Panama Canal service between Asia and the U.S. East Coast, using instead the Suez Canal, and this will continue until the third set of locks becomes operational.
The Maersk ships will return when the canal expansion work is completed, which is expected early 2015,
Ariel Frias, Maersk marketing and communications manager informed ‘Newsroom Panama’.
Posted at Marine Link
The ITF is welcoming the news that a strike by members of the Swedish Transport Workers’ Union (STWU) was called off after just 45 minutes earlier this week following agreement with the Swedish Road Transport Employers Association (SRTEA) on a new contract for workers.
Industrial action, which started at noon on Wednesday 24 April (11.00 GMT), was taken after a breakdown in the latest round of labour market negotiations in the transport sector.
The new contract for port and road haulage workers has been agreed for three years and stipulates a three step wage increase.
ITF acting general secretary Stephen Cotton commented: “The wage increase is great, but more importantly than that, this new contract is also a big step forward in terms of the job security of STWU workers. It’s been agreed that when a transport company wants to take on a temporary employer for a job, although the union won’t be able to veto the use of agency workers, they will be automatically given the opportunity to negotiate and whilst those negotiations take place the agencies can’t be used.”
This marks significant progress in an area where for a long time there has been no movement...
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